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Business/FinancialBoeing Hands NASA Proposal For Ares V Heavy Lifter Component
The Boeing Co. [BA] gave NASA a proposal for design support of a component in the planned Ares V heavy lifter rocket, the company announced yesterday. Ares V will boost to […]
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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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NASA Gains $1 Billion In Economic Stimulus Bill
NASA will gain $1 billion under the congressional economic stimulus bill that aims to slow the U.S. plunge into the deepest recession in recent years. That $1 billion would include […]
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Business/Financial
New Uses Explored For Airborne Laser Beyond Boost-Phase Missile Defense
The Airborne Laser (ABL), a defensive system that kills enemy missiles shortly after they launch, may have other applications such as air-to-air combat against enemy planes, killing enemy cruise missiles […]
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Sen. Nelson Again To Chair Panel Overseeing NASA
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) will again chair the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee science and space subcommittee that oversees NASA. Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the […]
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Business/Financial
Alaska Members Of Congress Press Pentagon Not To Cut GMD
Alaska members of Congress are pushing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates not to cut funding for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, part of the multi-layered U.S. shield against enemy missiles. […]