The advance procurement contract enables Boeing to obtain long-lead materials for the satellite.

先期采办合同使波音公司能够获得卫星的长期主导原料。

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Antiquated and overly complex procurement rules lead to year-long delays and waste millions of taxpayer dollars.

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What is more, if Congress is serious about procurement reform in the Pentagon, about reducing the unacceptably long lead-times from program inception to deployment, and about minimizing the costs of defense systems, it will find no better model than the approach used to bring on line successive generations of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

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