The Pentagon plans to take a "phased approach" to completing a contract financing study next year that could change the way defense contractors get paid. Lt. Col Mike Andrews, a Defense Department spokesman, said the study, which has yet to begin, will be run by Janice Muskopf, director of pricing and contracting initiatives. "The financing study will be conducted as a phased approach instead of a monolithic, all-encompassing study, and will employ parallel running blocks of focus areas that include...