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Abercrombie Eyes Push Next Session For DoD Capital Budget, Dual Buy For Tanker

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Friday, October 31st, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), the head of a key defense panel in Congress, said he plans to push next session for instituting capital budgeting at the Pentagon and making the Air Force's tanker competition a dual buy. The chairman of the House Armed Services Air and Land Forces subcommittee also predicted there will be increased budgetary pressure on the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, and that lawmakers in the near future will examine nascent Pentagon plans…

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