Panel: DOD should submit plan on common strategic weapon elements

By Jordana Mishory / April 28, 2016 at 9:10 AM
In an aim to prevent a return to stovepiping and to help save money, the House Armed Services Committee wants details on the Pentagon's efforts to incorporate common components and technologies on the Air Force and Navy's strategic systems, including a date by which such a decision would be made and the plan to do so. In the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill passed this week, lawmakers said that it is important to move toward this commonality as the...

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