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Business/FinancialSpecial 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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Gates 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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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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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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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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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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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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Iran Is Supplying Surface-To-Air Missiles To Taliban In Afghanistan
Iran is supplying SA-14 Gremlin surface-to-air missiles to Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan, who wish to launch a spectacular attack on U.S. and coalition forces in the nation that spawned the […]
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Iran Plans Eight Times More Centrifuges: Report
Iran plans to increase its nuclear materials production capacity to more than eight times its current size, Xinhua news agency reported. Iran plans to expand the 6,000 centrifuges to a […]