Pentagon grants Navy waiver for not-yet-mature technology on Columbia-class submarine

By Jason Sherman / February 13, 2017 at 4:41 PM
The Pentagon's acquisition executive last month -- while approving the Navy's request to initiate the Ohio Replacement Program as a major defense acquisition program by starting engineering and manufacturing development on the new ballistic missile submarine -- waived a statutory requirement for one technology that has not yet demonstrated the prerequisite to operate in a relevant environment. On Jan. 4, then-Pentagon acquisition executive Frank Kendall wrote the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee to advise that...

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