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HAC-D Approves Air Force $100 Million EELV Reprogramming Request

Pat Host

Monday, September 22nd, 2014

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HAC-D Approves Air Force $100 Million EELV Reprogramming Request

The NROL-33 launch took place on an Atlas V launch vehicle. Photo: Air Force.

The House Appropriations defense subcommittee (HAC-D) approved the Defense Department’s July 10 reprogramming request to add $100 million and an additional fiscal year 2015 launch to the Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program, according to a letter obtained by Defense Daily. In a Sept. 19 letter to Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Michael McCord, HAC-D Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.) also approved a $22 million increase for the Air Force’s Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter (CVA/Hunter) weapon system. CVA/Hunter executes vulnerability,…

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