Congress
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CongressTauscher Wants To Improve Nuclear Stockpile, Says RRW Deserved "Ugly Death"
By Emelie Rutherford A leading House authorizer voiced support yesterday for the initial concept behind the Bush administration’s beleaguered Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) effort, and said the next Congress will […]
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Air ForcePentagon OK’s Advanced Funds For Four F-22s, Waits For January Decision On More
By Emelie Rutherford Pentagon leadership agreed this week to spend $50 million on parts for four future F-22 jet fighters, instead of obligating $140 million in advanced funding for 20 […]
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Some Defense Transition Team Members Announced
By Emelie Rutherford President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team yesterday announced some key members dealing with defense matters. The Department of Defense Agency Review Team is lead by John White and […]
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ArmyNew All-Terrain MRAP Effort Proceeding, To Be Steered By Marine Corps’ JPO
By Emelie Rutherford A Marine Corps-lead effort for buying thousands of a new breed of all-terrain Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle for Afghanistan is moving forward, with a solicitation […]
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Army
Navy Takes Over APKWS Program After Army Ends Its Effort
By Geoff Fein The Navy has taken over the lead on the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) following the Army’s decision to terminate the program. BAE Systems last week […]
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Business/FinancialRussia Rages At U.S. President-Elect Obama, As Moscow Threatens Planned U.S.-European Missile Defense On Czech, Polish Sites
Medvedev Tests The Mettle Of A New American President, Announcing Russian Missiles To Be Stationed In Kaliningrad Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in his first state of the nation address before […]
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Where Obama Can Find Funding To Support Defense And Space – And Still Fulfill Campaign Promises
Backgrounder: Analysts Predicting Plunging Revenues May Be Proven Wrong Multiple Ways Pundits are saying that President-elect Barack Obama will have a tough time righting the economy, handling two simultaneous wars, […]
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Senate Panel Authorizing NASA Will Get New Leaders In 2009
Full House Authorization Committee Overseeing NASA Has Stable Leadership, But Major Shakeup Hits Subcommittee NASA Faces New Top Appropriators In Both Senate, House Next Year In the wake of elections […]
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Missile Defense Authorizers: Both Levin And McCain Will Return In Senate
In House, Missile Defense Leader Franks Reelected, But So Too Is Tauscher Key Appropriations Leadership May See Shakeup After Election Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services […]
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Business/Financial
NASA Is Starved For Needed Funds, Causing Manifold Woes: Space Shuttle Retirement, Orion-Ares First Manned Flight, And First Moon Mission Could Be Delayed; Costs Soar
NASA Sees Only 65 Percent Chance Orion-Ares Will Fly In March 2015; CBO Says Costs Might Exceed Plans By As Much As $7 Billion Over NASA Budgets Chances Of Retiring […]