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Business/FinancialMissile 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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Business/Financial
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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Business/Financial
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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Business/Financial
Supp Coming In ‘Few Weeks;’ Gates Still Weighing Final Base Budget Details
By Emelie Rutherford The Obama administration said yesterday it will send a request to Congress "in the next few weeks" for $75.5 billion in supplemental war funding for the remainder […]
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Obama Proposing $42.7 Billion For DHS, Including $355 Million For Cyber Security
By Calvin Biesecker The Obama administration yesterday proposed an FY ’10 budget request that includes $42.7 billion in discretionary spending for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a more than […]
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Taylor Wants Pres Helo Hearing On Hill
By Emelie Rutherford The head of a naval panel in Congress said he wants officials working on the over-budget VH-71 presidential helicopter replacement program to justify its continuation on Capitol […]
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Air ForceNews On F-22 Fate Not Coming By March 1
By Emelie Rutherford Watchers of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] F-22 stealth fighter program hoping to learn by March 1 if the Obama administration plans to continue or terminate the jet’s production […]
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AT&L Nominee Carter To Face Senators’ Questions On Experience
By Emelie Rutherford Ashton Carter, President Obama’s nominee for Pentagon acquisition czar, undoubtedly will be quizzed during his confirmation hearing about how his dearth of extensive defense- industry and acquisition […]
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ArmyLevin, McCain Bill Targets Cost-Plus Contracts
By Emelie Rutherford The heads of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) said yesterday they hope to seriously curtail the use of cost-plus contracts through the extensive defense-acquisition- reform bill […]