How the Pentagon Plans to Fix Its Pricey Missile Problem

Wall Street Journal: “The Pentagon is shooting expensive missiles faster than it can replace them. Its solution: cheaper missiles.”

“The U.S. military is using nonstandard contracts and tasking defense contractors to design new weapons from scratch to cut years of production time and hundreds of millions of dollars off their cost. Even before the Iran war cut into U.S. armament supplies, lawmakers and military brass worried that the U.S. can’t rearm itself fast enough to deter threats and respond to conflicts.”