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December 21, 2018 By AMK

Hard-nosed Pentagon negotiator removed from job

Trump administration officials are removing the Pentagon’s top weapon buying negotiator, who racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel costs and pushed a controversial plan to slow payments to defense contractors, Defense One has learned.
Shay D. Assad, Director, DoD’s Defense Pricing and Contracting Initiatives

Shay Assad, a senior Defense Department bureaucrat, is being reassigned to a post in Massachusetts, one unconnected to the contract negotiating team he has led for seven years, according to current and former defense officials familiar with the decision.

In the coming weeks, Assad will be moved from his position as director of defense pricing and contracting initiatives to a lateral position within the Defense Contract Management Agency in the Boston area, current and former officials said.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.defenseone.com/politics/2018/12/shay-assad/153591 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition and sustainment, acquisition workforce, cost and price, DCMA, DoD, industrial base, negotiated price, negotiation, Pentagon, rulemaking

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