The Pentagon is changing its tune on how to do business with the arms industry.

Last week, Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg released a memo directing the Pentagon’s contracting officers to acquire “actual cost information” from arms manufacturers to support “fair and reasonable pricing” on military contracts.

The memo is an about-face on the administration’s weapons acquisition policy. So far this term, the White House has applied its laissez-faire regulatory approach to its own bilateral relationships within the arms industry, undermining the Pentagon’s ability to negotiate fair contract prices on behalf of taxpayers.

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