07/22/2013
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"Secretary Mabus and Admiral Roughead, do you feel this is a mishandling of the draft RFP and could serve as a potential area of protest?"
"Secretary Mabus, if a provision can be made to enhance the performance of one ship in these areas, why did you determine that changes could not be made to descope the ships where they over perform to ..."
"Politics should not enter into this."
"So you believe that?"