John McCain actually said...

After a 30-year procurement history, costs and design are (or should be) stable and enough is (or should be) known, about technology risk associated with those programs so that the Navy should be contracting here on a fixed-price--not cost-reimbursable--basis.

Context

McCain criticizes the Navy's use of cost-reimbursable contracts for submarine programs.

01/14/2009

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