Congress
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Business/FinancialMissile Defense Programs Hit With $410 Million In Authorization Cuts
European Missile Defense Receives $465 Million In Defense Authorization, $246 Million Under Budget Request Congress, rushing to wrap up work for the year ahead of the Nov. 4 general election, […]
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Business/Financial
Financial Bailout Package Will Tighten Finances Further On Missile Defense Programs, NASA
An emergency $700 billion financial industry bailout package that a worried, hurried Congress wrote to stave off a global economic disaster may serve to further tighten finances of many federal […]
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CongressKinetic Energy Interceptor Test Success Resolves Problems With Nozzles, Rocket Motor Pressure Spike
Congress Gives KEI Program Full Appropriations Funding Of $386 Million, As Bush Requested The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) ballistic missile interceptor system, in a successful rocket motor test last week, […]
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Air ForceFinal Defense Appropriations Bill, Murtha Suggest Dual Buy For Tanker
By Emelie Rutherford The defense spending bill nearing final passage calls for the Pentagon to consider a dual buy for the aerial refueling tanker contract, a setup the House’s lead defense […]
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Air Force
House Sends Final Defense Approps, Authorization Bills To Senate
By Emelie Rutherford The House passed yesterday the final compromise versions of fiscal year 2009 defense appropriations and authorization legislation–which call for continuing DDG-1000 destroyer production while potentially reviving the […]
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Congress
Compromise DoD Authorization Bill Moves To House, Approps Deal Takes Shape
By Emelie Rutherford House and Senate appropriators reached an unofficial conference agreement on the fiscal year 2009 defense appropriations bill last Friday, and agreed to include partial procurement funding for […]
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Air Force
Gates: Pentagon Weighed Changing Tanker Competition Shortly Before Axing It
By Emelie Rutherford Defense Secretary Robert Gates said before halting the heated Air Force tanker competition two weeks ago Pentagon officials considered, but decided against, altering the selection process to […]
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Congress
Obama Targets Government Contracting, Private Hill Meetings
By Emelie Rutherford Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) outlined a government reform plan yesterday that calls for slashing government spending on contractors and requiring that congressional bill-writing sessions […]
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Business/Financial
Senate Approves Amendment Providing $89 Million For Ballistic Missile Defense AN/TPY-2 Radar
Provision Doesn’t Specify Which Nation Is Site The Senate voted out a defense authorization bill for the soon-to-begin fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, approving an amendment that would provide […]
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Congress
Defense Authorization Conferees Weighing Changes To LCS Cost Cap
By Emelie Rutherford As the Navy struggles with industry proposals for building the next batch of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), a key lawmaker said late last week he was not […]