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Kendall: Legislative Proposal to Accelerate New Starts Would Not Reduce Congressional Authority Over Programs

Kendall: Legislative Proposal to Accelerate New Starts Would Not Reduce Congressional Authority Over Programs
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall (U.S. Air Force Photo)

A White Office of Management and Budget (OMB) legislative proposal to Congress last month to speed new start programs in DoD and allow up to $300 million in early design work would not impinge on congressional authority over modernization programs, U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 3. "The movie Casablanca starts with a comment about refugees who come to Casablanca and wait and wait and wait," Kendall said in response to a…

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