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On the recordMarch 6, 2012
Last June, the then Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Ashton Carter certified to the Congress that the Global Hawk was 'essential to the National security'; and 'that there are no alternatives to the program which will provide acceptable capability to meet the joint military requirement at less cost'.
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Dianne Feinstein
Democratic · California

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Feinstein questions the cancellation of the Global Hawk program despite its importance to national security.

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