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Business/FinancialMissile Defense Funding May Be Slashed Deeply, Rep. Franks Says, Seeing $3 Billion Targeted For Cut From $9.6 Billion Program
Still-Developing Missile Defense Programs May Be Cut In Half, Franks Cautions Such Deep Cuts Would Echo Attempts To Eviscerate ABL, KEI, EMD Programs In Budgets; Hearing Set For Wednesday As […]
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Air ForceExperts See Deep Cuts Coming In Defense Procurement, Myriad Programs At Risk
Defense procurement programs face huge budget cuts, not only in fiscal 2010 but even more in 2011 and the out years, with an immense array of programs in each of […]
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CongressEra Of House Self-Disclosure of Earmark Requests Begins
By Emelie Rutherford As soon as today House members may start posting on their Web sites requests to earmark funds for specific projects in appropriations bills, a process intended to […]
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Conn. Lawmakers Seek To Reinsert Sikorsky Into Pres Helo Effort
By Emelie Rutherford Connecticut lawmakers, still smarting from Sikorksy‘s [UTX] 2005 loss in the next-generation presidential helicopter competition, want the Obama Pentagon to look at reworking the current and over-budget […]
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Lieberman, Collins Say Support Growing For Keeping FEMA In DHS
Senators Joseph Lieberman (I/D-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) yesterday said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should remain within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and that eight organizations […]
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CSBA Analyst: Congress Should Seek $17-18 Billion Shipbuilding Budget
By Emelie Rutherford If the Obama administration doesn’t seek $17 billion to $18 billion next fiscal year for naval shipbuilding, Congress should shift monies from elsewhere in the defense budget […]
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Republicans Revive Push For Setting DoD Funds At 4 Percent GDP
By Emelie Rutherford Two congressional Republicans have renewed their thus-far-unsuccessful plan to set the base defense budget at 4 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). The joint resolution offered […]
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Business/Financial
Gen. Cartwright: Iran Possesses ICBM Technology, But Further Refinements Needed For Missile
Iran proved it now possesses the technology to build intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), though further work would be required to perfect such a weapon, according to Marine Corps Gen. James […]
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United States Offers To Slow, Not Kill, European Missile Defense If Russia Helps Stop Iran From Developing Nuclear Bombs
The Obama administration is willing to delay plans to construct the European Missile Defense (EMD) system as a shield against Iranian missiles, if Russia will help the United States pressure […]
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Tauscher: Delay European Missile Defense, Focus Instead On European Defense Against Short-Medium Range Iranian Missiles
She Condemns Iran For Developing Missile Able To Strike Targets In United States Tauscher Says European System Won’t Be Dropped In Deal With Moscow, But EMD Would Protect America, Not […]