Defense Department acquisition chief Ellen Lord today defended the Pentagon's request that Congress provide about $11 billion in emergency supplemental funding to mitigate the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on defense contractors and weapons programs. “I don’t write blank checks,” she said during a Pentagon press conference. The Pentagon says the $11 billion request, according to a white paper obtained by Inside Defense , would be used to support about 106,000 jobs in the defense industrial base. But...
