Member of the House Committee on Armed Services and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. John Garamendi, Democratic Representative for California’s 8th congressional district. undersecretary of the Army from 1975 to 1977. Norman Augustine, former chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin. Today, On Point: How a secret dinner at the Pentagon kicked off a massive consolidation in the defense industry. "I happened to be seated next Les Aspin, and I remember I said, ‘Les, this is awfully nice of you to invite us all to dinner, we’re all pleased to have a free meal, but why are we here?’ And he said, ‘Well, in about 15 minutes, you’re going to find out. "We showed up for dinner at the Pentagon one night dutifully, none of us knowing why we were there," Norman Augustine, former chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin, says. Norm Augustine, then the head of Martin Marietta, remembers getting the call. In 1993, then Secretary of Defense Les Aspin invited the CEOs of America's largest defense contractors to a secret dinner. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. Facebook Email The Pentagon logo and an American flag are lit up Januin the briefing room of Pentagon in Arlington, VA.
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