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Jim Langevin: “While I am certainly cognizant of the difficulties in creating an apples-to-apples comparison of the programs in…”

On the recordMarch 13, 2014
While I am certainly cognizant of the difficulties in creating an apples-to-apples comparison of the programs in question and the need for continued efforts to make that possible, can you speak to these decisions and the reasoning behind them, particularly given ASD Kendall's directive to, quote, 'aggressively introduce a competitive procurement environment in the EELV program'?
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Jim Langevin
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Langevin questions the decline in competitive procurement opportunities for space launches.

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