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CongressSeapower Panel Comes Out In Support of Expeditionary Vehicle Armor Plan
By Emelie Rutherford A House panel for the first time is endorsing the Marine Corps’ plans for fortifying the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) with detachable underbelly armor, though lawmakers want […]
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Business/FinancialE-2D Suffers Nunn-McCurdy Breach, Gets Approved For LRIP
By Emelie Rutherford and Geoff Fein The Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye being developed by Northrop Grumman [NOC] suffered a critical cost breach triggering an already completed Pentagon certification under the […]
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Air ForceHouse Panels OK New Littoral Ship Cost Cap, F-35 Second Engine
By Emelie Rutherford House authorization panels recommended last Friday changing cost controls for Navy littoral ships, prodding the service to enter into multiyear contracts, and adding monies to the Pentagon’s […]
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House Appropriators Approve $42.6 Billion Homeland Security Bill
By Calvin Biesecker The House Appropriations Committee on Friday agreed to a $42.6 billion homeland security budget next year, about $200 million less than requested by the Obama administration and […]
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Business/Financial
House Battle Opens Tomorrow Over Obama Budget Cuts To Missile Defense
Reps. Turner, Franks Assail Cuts As Harmful To U.S. National Security In a challenge to President Obama, some members of Congress will attempt to roll back at least some of […]
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Business/Financial
O’Reilly Says ABL Program In ‘Very Good Shape’ And Performing ‘Fantastic … Revolutionary’ Work Such As Compensating For Atmosphere Distorting Laser Beam
The Airborne Laser (ABL) is proceeding well toward a successful shoot-down of a target missile later this year, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), […]
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Business/Financial
Gates Endorses Missile Defense, Sees ‘High Probability’ Of Killing Incoming North Korean Missiles
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said U.S. missile defenses have a "high probability" of taking out any incoming North Korean missiles. "I have confidence that if North Korea launched a […]
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Business/Financial
North Korea, Following Nuclear Bomb And Missile Tests, Reels Into Vow To Make More Nukes; Pyongyang Finally Admits To Uranium Program, Beyond Plutonium Work
North Threatens ‘Action’ If Its Ships Are Boarded Under New U.N. Resolution To Curb Pyongyang Proliferation North Korea, fresh from launching missiles of varying ranges and testing a nuclear weapon […]
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Business/Financial
Ahmadinejad’s Message Of Hate And Threats Toward Israel, United States, Wins Him Reelection
His Vows To Annihilate America, Israel, Resonate With Iranian Voters; But His Rival Claims Election Fixing And Fraud Electorate Endorses Iranian Push Toward Ever More Threatening Missile Capabilities, Nuclear Materials […]
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Rep. McKeon To Fight Missile Defense Cuts As He Takes Top Republican Spot On Authorizing Panel, The House Armed Services Committee
House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Republicans selected Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon of California as their top-ranked GOP member, and McKeon said he will fight to reverse missile defense cuts […]