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Air ForceHouse Panels OK New Littoral Ship Cost Cap, F-35 Second Engine
By Emelie Rutherford House authorization panels recommended last Friday changing cost controls for Navy littoral ships, prodding the service to enter into multiyear contracts, and adding monies to the Pentagon’s […]
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CongressHouse Appropriators Approve $42.6 Billion Homeland Security Bill
By Calvin Biesecker The House Appropriations Committee on Friday agreed to a $42.6 billion homeland security budget next year, about $200 million less than requested by the Obama administration and […]
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Business/FinancialHouse Battle Opens Tomorrow Over Obama Budget Cuts To Missile Defense
Reps. Turner, Franks Assail Cuts As Harmful To U.S. National Security In a challenge to President Obama, some members of Congress will attempt to roll back at least some of […]
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Business/Financial
O’Reilly Says ABL Program In ‘Very Good Shape’ And Performing ‘Fantastic … Revolutionary’ Work Such As Compensating For Atmosphere Distorting Laser Beam
The Airborne Laser (ABL) is proceeding well toward a successful shoot-down of a target missile later this year, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), […]
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Congress
House Panels Heed Admin’s Missile Cuts, Boost SOCOM
By Emelie Rutherford House authorizing subcommittees began crafting the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2010 budget yesterday, proposing to match the Obama administration’s missile-defense request and boost its Special Operations Command (SOCOM) […]
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Restricting Body Imagers Limits Threat Detection, Acting TSA Chief Says
By Calvin Biesecker Restrictions on the use of imaging technology at airport checkpoints that can peer beneath a person’s clothing to detect potential threats that metal detectors will limit the […]
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Hill Panel Crafts Ship Plan As GOP Seeks DoD Ship, Aircraft Roadmaps
By Emelie Rutherford The head of a naval subcommittee in Congress said that while he understands the frustration of Republicans who want to compel the Pentagon to produce a shipbuilding […]
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Air Force
Gates Repeats Flexibility On Missile Interceptors
By Emelie Rutherford Defense Secretary Robert Gates told senators yesterday he would support increasing the number of ground-based missile interceptors in the United States–despite the lack of funding for more […]
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Congress
House Panel Proposes Deepwater, Cybersecurity Cuts In DHS Approps Bill
By Emelie Rutherford A $37 million reduction to the Coast Guard’s Deepwater modernization program and $19 million dip in cybersecurity funding are among the modest cuts to the Obama administration’s […]
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DNDO Looks For October Certification of ASP Program By Napolitano
By Calvin Biesecker The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is hoping that development of the next-generation of Radiation Portal Monitors (RPMs) will be ready in time for a certification decision […]