Don't use R&D funds to start test article LRIP, House unit warns

The Pentagon's new policy of encouraging acquisition programs to budget R&D funds for low rate initial production (LRIP) of test articles has aroused House Appropriations Committee concern that the policy could be used to initiate procurement without approval of Congress or the Office of the...

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