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Ken Calvert: “The bill includes 300 million to expand the successful…”

Featuring: Ken Calvert, Republican | U.S. House, California, District 41

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We cannot continue to take decades to produce new systems or even worse, invest billions into programs that must be eventually canceled due to non performance. The bridge, the Valley of Death. The bill includes 300 million to expand the successful procurement pilot program Apfit. Further, it creates a new portfolio to rapidly field commercial technologies warfighter through traditional or nontraditional entities within the department. (04:39–04:45)

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Asserts that the bill includes $300 million to expand the procurement pilot program Apfit.

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