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WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Reuters) Large defense companies have “conned” the U. S. military into buying expensive equipment when cheaper commercial options would have been available, U. S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said. Government accountability advocates and some lawmakers have long argued that defense contractors have overcharged the military. But Driscoll’s comments were unusually blunt for a sitting government official speaking out against companies that supply the largest military in the world.”(The) defense industrial base broadly, and the primes in particular, conned the American people and the Pentagon and the Army,” Driscoll told reporters, referring to prime contractors that work directly with the.