Opinion: Congress And The Pentagon Are Setting Back Defense Contracting

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Efforts in Congress to prohibit share buybacks by defense contractors and an Aug. 18 Defense Department memo on contractor cost disclosure could represent backward steps in recruiting and retaining companies for defense work. The Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal...
Byron Callan

Contributing columnist Byron Callan is a managing director at Capital Alpha Partners in Washington.

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