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E4 - How the Pentagon Buys Stuff

The Merge

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Isn't the M-Dap the Biggest?

There are three tiers of middle tier itself. You have the largest that are like the M-daps, which actually do require written approval from the undersecretary defense of A&S acquisition sustainment. There's now 131 programs that are using MTAs and it's a 60 40 split. That kind of a checks with what I have seen as the addiction to demos and prototypes, but lack of decisions and long term commitments for things like that.

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