Staff chief: House lawmakers open to Senate proposal to eliminate AT&L

By Tony Bertuca / June 24, 2016 at 4:21 PM
Majority staff directors for the House and Senate Armed Services committees see plenty of room for compromise as they prepare to launch summer meetings to reconcile defense policy bills that are $18 billion apart and propose significantly different reforms to the Defense Department's acquisition system, including the elimination of DOD's acquisition chief. To illuminate some key agreements and differences between the bills, Bob Simmons, staff director at the House Armed Services Committee, joined his Senate counterpart Chris Brose at the...

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