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Business/FinancialGates Errs In Downplaying Conventional Wars, Near-Peer Foes By Cutting Weapons Programs, Analyst Says; Dumping Systems Is Dangerous
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is leading the Department of Defense in a wrong and dangerous direction by cutting or killing major weapons acquisition programs, a military analyst said in […]
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CongressDNDO Hopes Next-Generation Radiation Screener Ready For Certification
By Calvin Biesecker By the end of FY ’09 the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) hopes to have successfully developed one company’s next-generation radiation portal monitor for certification by Homeland […]
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Congress
Taylor Happy Gates Wants DDG-1000 End, Awaits Hill Budget Vetting
By Emelie Rutherford The head of a naval panel in Congress said yesterday in an interview he is pleased Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to end the DDG-1000 destroyer line, […]
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Air ForceLawmakers Balk At Proposed Hits To Missile Defense, F-22, FCS
By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle launched immediate campaigns yesterday to reverse Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ proposed reduction in missile-defense funding, termination of the F-22 jet’s […]
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Business/Financial
Transformational Satellite Program Would Die In Fiscal 2010 Gates Plan; $26 Billion At Stake For TSAT
The $26 billion Transformational Satellite, or TSAT, program would die under a new budget plan that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates today unveiled in a news briefing. The Boeing Co. […]
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Business/Financial
Tauscher, Skelton, Condemn North Korea For Missile Launch, But They Still Appear Poised To Slash Missile Defense Programs
Their Comments Come As Obama, Gates, Seen Likely To Slash Or Kill Some Missile Defense Programs In Fiscal 2010 Budget Plan Republicans Strongly Oppose Any Move To Gouge Missile Defense […]
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Business/Financial
Congressional Reaction To Gates Budget Plan Ranges From Noncommittal To Incredulous, With Missile Defense Cuts Drawing Opposition
Congressional reaction to the new budget plan by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ranged from polite but reserved, to strident condemnation, especially in his plans to cut some missile defense […]
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Business/Financial
Critics Detail Arguments Attacking Missile Defense, Military Procurement Programs, In Congressional Testimony
Assumptions: No One Would Dare Launch Missile At United States; Missile Defense Is Expensive Critics Say There Is No Complete Guarantee That Missile Defense Systems Will Work A House panel […]
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Business/Financial
Experts Refute Critics’ Assertions Leveled Against Missile Defense
Three panels of experts put down critics’ allegations that missile defense programs don’t work or have other shortcomings, allegations that are being used by some leaders in Washington to underpin […]
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Business/Financial
Raytheon: Low Cost Is NCADE Sales Point In Tough Fiscal 2010 Defense Budget; Cuts Looming
Raytheon Co. [RTN] will use the relatively low cost of the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) to help sell it to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Congress in […]