Congress
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CongressNavy Now Wants A Third DDG-1000 Next Year
By Emelie Rutherford The Navy has shifted course and now wants to buy a DDG-1000 in fiscal year 2009, though the service hopes to stop purchasing the destroyer after that […]
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Air ForceBoeing’s Hill Backers Call For Pentagon To Slow New Tanker Competition
By Emelie Rutherford At least 11 lawmakers–including many outspoken Boeing [BA] backers–want the Pentagon to slow the speed of the revised aerial-refueling tanker competition, saying in a letter too many questions […]
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CongressRussia Deploys SS-21 Missile Launchers Into Georgia, Flouting U.S. Demands
Moscow Reverts To Cold War Moves Just As NASA Plans To Buy Russian Soyuz Services; Cause Of Soyuz Woes Still Unknown Russia Cuts Oil Flow To Czech Republic, But Denies This […]
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Business/FinancialPoland Signs Agreement Permitting United States To Install Interceptors In Silos For European Missile Defense
After months of negotiations, Poland signed an agreement allowing the United States to install ballistic missile interceptors in silos in Poland. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk disclosed the agreement in […]
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CongressU.S. Public Supports Ballistic Missile Defense By A Wide Margin; 87 Percent Favor It
Poll Results Come As Congress Weighs Financing For U.S. Missile Defense Programs A lopsided 87 percent of the American public supports creation of the multi-layered U.S. ballistic missile defense shield […]
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Air ForceSchwartz, McNabb Approved For Air Force Positions, Donley Confirmation Stalled
By Emelie Rutherford Despite the objection of Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), the Senate last Friday officially confirmed Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz, outgoing head of U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), as […]
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Business/FinancialNavy Tells Congress It Wants A DDG-51 In FY ’09, Though No Formal Request Made
By Emelie Rutherford While the Navy’s new destroyer-building proposal to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) calls for building eight more DDG-51s starting in fiscal year 2010, service […]
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CongressNASA Budget Would Be 70 Percent Higher If It Kept Pace With Inflation
NASA 50th Anniversary Celebration Not So Golden In Budget Terms; Glenn Urges Increasing NASA Budget At Least $3 Billion Annually The budget for NASA, as it moves into a new […]
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CongressGlenn: Why Go Back To Moon To Construct A Waystation? Why Not Go Directly To Mars?
Stephen Hawking: The Costs Of Space Exploration Are Steep, But They Are Well Worth It John Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut, questioned a major portion of President Bush’s vision for […]
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CongressNew Threat Assessment Helped Drive Navy Destroyer Change, Service Tells Hill
By Emelie Rutherford The Navy’s new plan to stop buying DDG-1000 destroyers in favor of older DDG-51 combattants results partly from a threat assessment showing a need for combating foes who […]