What must be changed in defense procurement to prevent a repeat?

But Congress does need to take a much more skeptical, cost-effective approach to defense procurement.

It could be argued that interlocked economies and defense procurements really helped to stabilize world security, the report said.

This method of Government review was highly successful over a lengthy period of defense procurement.

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a severe drop in defense procurement.

It is a case, one said, that "will rewrite the law on defense procurement."

The sporadic nature of defense procurement is also unattractive to companies wishing to maintain a constant income stream.

"It's dangerous for defense procurement and tragic for the future of this part of our domestic economy."

The ministry was formed in 1982 to centralize Chinese defense procurement and technology whose responsibility had been distributed among several agencies.

U.S. depends on foreign defense "prime" contractors for less than 2% of its defense procurement.