U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus speaks May 5 to an audience at Sea-Air-Space 2010. (MC2 KEVIN S. O'BRIEN / U.S. NAVY)U.S. Navy Secretary Demands End to 'Nutty' Contracts -- Defense News
In a sometimes passionate and even strident address, U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on May 5 kept up the clarion call for a rigorous scrub of all service acquisition programs. He added energy efficiency to the imperatives to eliminate cost growth and reduce the price of production in programs.
"We have to re-examine everything we do. Nothing can be taken for granted," he told a luncheon audience at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space symposium in Washington.
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