Pentagon Vows to Better Align Profit With Performance

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The Pentagon wants to better align profits paid to defense contractors with improved performance, the military’s top weapons buyer told an investors conference.

“I don’t think we do as good a job as we should” in tying profits to how well a project is executed, Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology, told a Credit Suisse Group AG conference yesterday in New York.