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Business/FinancialGates Says Pentagon Must Demand More Mature Technology In Missile Defense And Other Programs Before They Advance To Full Rate Production
The Department of Defense must ensure new technology is more mature before permitting programs such as missile defense systems to advance toward full-rate production, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said. […]
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Business/Financial
Sen. Levin Doubtful About Need For Airborne Laser Missile Defense System
Levin Sees Opportunity For Developing European Missile Defense Jointly With Russia Senator: Iranian President Ahmadinejad May Not Be Deterred By U.S. Retaliation Threat From Launching Missile Attack Sen. Carl Levin […]
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Business/Financial
Rep. Tauscher Suggests Slashing Ground-based Missile Defense, Others, In Letter To Pentagon Leader
The United States should cut funding for the Ground-based Missile Defense program that aims to take down long-range incoming enemy missiles, focusing instead of systems that counter short- and medium-range […]
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Business/Financial
Missile Defense Agency Set To Increase Testing Of Ballistic Missile Defense Systems As Some Lawmakers Challenge Testing Adequacy
Republicans Assert Testing Issue A Pretext Democrats Use To Justify Slashing Funds For Missile Defense In Fiscal 2010 Budget Cuts That Harm Ground-based Missile Defense Program Would Weaken U.S. Defense […]
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Business/Financial
Proposed Cuts To Ground-based Midcourse Defense, Airborne Laser, Kinetic Energy Interceptor Imperil Nation
Deferring Or Killing Some Missile Defense Programs Gambles Cities Won’t Be Lost Some members of Congress are considering cuts in ballistic missile defense programs that amount to a gamble that […]
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Business/Financial
Budget Reaction: Cutting Funds For GMD Could Harm Capability Just As Iran, North Korea, Pose Growing Threats
ABL Cuts Would Come After Program Has Seen Major Progress, Successes Cutting funding for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system or the Airborne Laser (ABL) could harm U.S. attempts to […]
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CongressAdm. Mullen Concerned Iran Is Moving To Nuclear Capability; North Korean Launch Bears Watching
Mullen Declines To Say Whether U.S. Forces Will Shoot Down Any Missile That North Korea Launches Iran’s illicit nuclear materials development program likely has produced enough materials to make an […]
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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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Obama 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 […]