Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante is departing for a weeklong trip to Japan to reinforce defense industrial cooperation between Washington and Tokyo. A statement from the Pentagon notes that LaPlante will conduct the first U.S.-Japan Defense Industrial Cooperation, Acquisition and Sustainment Forum (DICAS) alongside Masaki Fukasawa, commissioner of Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency. The DICAS forum, according to the Defense Department, “aims to promote greater U.S.-Japan defense industrial cooperation and accelerate opportunities for co-development, co-production, and co-sustainment.” LaPlante is...
