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Roger Wicker: “It would delay almost every single acquisition program that we have underway, ground and air, to try to not just…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2018
It would delay almost every single acquisition program that we have underway, ground and air, to try to not just modernize but to create future capabilities for the force that we think we need to be to defend the interests of this Nation.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker discusses the impact of delays on military acquisition programs.

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