How is the Department ensuring that critical, Government-owned and -operated facilities in the Nation's organic industrial base, like Rock Island Arsenal, are properly and strategically modernized so that these facilities have the equipment and skillsets they need to respond to wartime needs?
Dick Durbin: “How is the Department ensuring that critical, Government-owned and -operated facilities in the Nation's organic…”
On the recordJune 12, 2012
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Durbin questions the modernization of critical military facilities.
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