Congress
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Business/FinancialReport Says Obama Offered To Kill European Missile Defense System If Russia Helps Curb Iran
Report Appeared In Russian Paper President Obama offered to kill plans to build the European Missile Defense (EMD) system if Russia would help the United States force Iran to abandon […]
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Business/Financial
Special Fiscal 2010 Budget Issue: Obama Budget Is Stand-Pat For NASA, But Cuts Missile Defense Deeply, Damaging Programs, Harming Security
In this special fiscal 2010 budget issue, Space & Missile Defense Report describes in detail how President Obama’s federal budget outline for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010, provides […]
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Business/Financial
Supp Coming In ‘Few Weeks;’ Gates Still Weighing Final Base Budget Details
By Emelie Rutherford The Obama administration said yesterday it will send a request to Congress "in the next few weeks" for $75.5 billion in supplemental war funding for the remainder […]
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CongressObama Proposing $42.7 Billion For DHS, Including $355 Million For Cyber Security
By Calvin Biesecker The Obama administration yesterday proposed an FY ’10 budget request that includes $42.7 billion in discretionary spending for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a more than […]
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Congress
Taylor Wants Pres Helo Hearing On Hill
By Emelie Rutherford The head of a naval panel in Congress said he wants officials working on the over-budget VH-71 presidential helicopter replacement program to justify its continuation on Capitol […]
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Air ForceNews On F-22 Fate Not Coming By March 1
By Emelie Rutherford Watchers of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] F-22 stealth fighter program hoping to learn by March 1 if the Obama administration plans to continue or terminate the jet’s production […]
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Congress
AT&L Nominee Carter To Face Senators’ Questions On Experience
By Emelie Rutherford Ashton Carter, President Obama’s nominee for Pentagon acquisition czar, undoubtedly will be quizzed during his confirmation hearing about how his dearth of extensive defense- industry and acquisition […]
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ArmyLevin, McCain Bill Targets Cost-Plus Contracts
By Emelie Rutherford The heads of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) said yesterday they hope to seriously curtail the use of cost-plus contracts through the extensive defense-acquisition- reform bill […]
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Business/Financial
Obama Nominating Carter To Be DoD Acquisition Czar
By Emelie Rutherford President Obama announced yesterday he intends to nominate Harvard professor Ashton Carter to be the Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics. If the nomination […]
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Congress
Levin Introduces Expansive Defense Acquisition Reform Bill
By Emelie Rutherford The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) introduced yesterday wide-reaching legislation intended to thwart cost overruns, schedule delays, and performance problems with defense acquisition programs […]