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Senators Criticize DoD’s Conflict of Interest Mitigation Plan

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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford A Senate panel is charging the Pentagon's proposed rule for handling organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) by defense contractors is not restrictive enough. As directed by the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009, the Defense Department in April unveiled a draft rule for limiting when one company is allowed to both develop or build a major defense system and also provide systems-engineering-and-technical-assistance (SETA) input on the product (Defense Daily, April 27). The Pentagon is accepting comments…

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