TITLE

Levin seeks independent office to combat rising weapons costs

AUTHOR(S)

Tiron, Roxana

PUB. DATE

June 2008

SOURCE

Hill;6/4/2008, Vol. 15 Issue 64, p16

SOURCE TYPE

Newspaper

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on the plan of Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, to introduce an amendment to create an independent office to review cost estimates on all major defense programs.

ACCESSION #

33024281

Tags: POLITICAL planning;  LEVIN, Carl, 1934-

 

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