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Business/FinancialObama’s Call For $400 Billion In DoD Cuts Spurs Skepticism, Praise On Hill
By Emelie Rutherford President Barack Obama’s call yesterday to cut $400 billion in defense spending by 2023 after reassessing the role of the U.S. military has generated skepticism among some […]
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CongressGAO Says Coast Guard Budget Assumptions High; Admiral Says They’re Not
By Calvin Biesecker The Coast Guard is making unrealistically high assumptions about the budgets it can expect to receive in the coming years, a problem that could manifest itself in […]
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NASA Would Snag Ability To Cancel Constellation Contracts Under Budget Plan
By Emelie Rutherford NASA will be allowed to cancel unwanted contracts from the defunct Constellation manned-spaceflight program if Congress passes the massive fiscal year 2011 budget deal reached late last […]
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Air ForceSASC Chair Wants New F-35 Engine Assessment That Could Help Revive Funding
By Emelie Rutherford A key senator said he believe the Pentagon’s business cases for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s second engine, which Congress is poised to defund this week, has […]
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Air Force
Final FY’11 Defense Bill Unveiled With F-35, Missile Defense Cuts
By Emelie Rutherford The House is expected to vote tonight on the last-minute federal budget Democrats and Republicans agreed to late last week, a massive plan unveiled early yesterday morning […]
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Marine Corps Plans More Senior Intervention In Weapons Programs
By Emelie Rutherford NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Senior Marine Corps brass expect to be "personally and decisively engaged" with additional weapon-system programs while working within increasingly austere budgets, the service’s No. 2 […]
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Air Force
Gov’t Shutdown Averted After Deal Struck On DoD Budget
By Emelie Rutherford Congressional leaders announced late last Friday they reached a deal that would prevent the federal government from shutting down that night at midnight, after they agreed to […]
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Air Force
Pentagon Prepares For Shutdown As Obama Rejects House Defense Bill
By Emelie Rutherford Facing the possibility of a government shutdown tomorrow, a top Pentagon official provided details yesterday on how the military workforce would operate without a budget. Deputy Defense […]
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TSA Global Office Wants More Resources, Chief Says
By Calvin Biesecker The head of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) division that assesses whether foreign airports and other international aviation-related entities are complying with baseline international security standards told […]
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TSA Absence At Oversight Hearing Prompts Mica To Suggest Need To ‘Rein’ Agency In
By Calvin Biesecker The chairman of a House panel that oversees the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) yesterday said that the agency’s failure to provide a representative to testify at a […]