Marine Corps general says program waivers under CR are 'very unlikely'

By Justin Katz / December 5, 2019 at 4:02 PM
A Marine Corps general overseeing weapons acquisition said today he is skeptical his service would receive program waivers under the current continuing resolution. "The programs that we have [and] the scale at which we have them, we're very, very, very, very unlikely to get an anomaly through for the Marine Corps," Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, Marine Corps Combat Development Command chief, told attendees today at a conference in Washington. Anomalies refer to waivers the military can receive from lawmakers to...

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