Congress
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CongressNavy Seeks $532 Million For Maintenance In FY ’11 Unfunded Needs Submission
By Geoff Fein For FY ’11, the Navy has outlined three unfunded requests totaling $532 million for aviation spares, and aviation and ship maintenance. "Although these unfunded requirements are not […]
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Business/FinancialDefense Sector Bolstering Pennsylvania, Other Mid-Term Congressional Races
By Emelie Rutherford The defense industry is making healthy investments in this fall’s mid-term elections, boosting the campaign coffers of Democrats in Pennsylvania and congressional heavyweights, including the Senate majority […]
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Air ForceDicks Would Bring Boeing Support, Intelligence Acumen To HAC-D
By Emelie Rutherford If Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) becomes the next chairman of the House Appropriations Defense subcommittee (HAC-D), he would advocate vigorously for Boeing [BA] and exhibit a shrewdness […]
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Business/Financial
Murtha, Powerful Defense Budget Writer, Dies At 77
By Emelie Rutherford Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), the all-powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Defense subcommittee (HAC-D) who swayed much of the Pentagon’s spending, died yesterday in Arlington, Va., from […]
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Air Force
Hill Seeks Data On F-35 Second-Engine Business Case
By Emelie Rutherford With the military services’ fiscal year 2011 budget hearings set to kick off this week, lawmakers are sorting through claims and data regarding whether there is a […]
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Air Force
Pentagon Defends QDR, Rejects F-35 Second Engine On Hill
By Emelie Rutherford Military leaders pushed back yesterday on criticism from House lawmakers who are upset the Pentagon does not want to fund a disputed jet-engine program and believe new […]
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Congress
Gates: DDG-1000 Poised To Breach Nunn-McCurdy Cost Limits
By Emelie Rutherford The Navy’s DDG-1000 destroyer program is poised to breach cost-controls set by Congress requiring it to be canceled or recertified process, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday. […]
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Congress
DHS, DoE Create New Aviation Security Partnership
By Calvin Biesecker The Departments of Homeland Security and Energy are forming a new senior-level partnership to better manage and leverage existing relationships between the two departments on aviation security […]
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Air Force
F-35 2nd Engine Fight Renews On Hill; Gates Says F-35 Deliveries On Track
By Emelie Rutherford The heads of a congressional panel dug in their heels yesterday on their opposing stances on whether Congress should continue funding a jet engine program over which […]
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Congress
NASA Calls For Canceling Constellation, Acknowledges Hill Pushback
By Emelie Rutherford NASA leaders argued yesterday President Barack Obama’s proposal to cancel the Constellation program would not hamper human spaceflight, as lawmakers whose states’ economies are linked to the […]