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 theapproach used to bring on line successive generations of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
In particular, Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has criticised the City model as unsustainable but Cook is adamant that theapproach being adopted at Eastlands is the right one.