By Calvin Biesecker An Office of Management and Budget rule requiring full funding for a program in a given fiscal year is the reason the Coast Guard decided against requesting any money in FY '12 to begin work on the sixth of eight planned National Security Cutters (NSC), Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp said yesterday. Papp said that the rule would require including funds for long-lead material purchases, ship construction and post-construction in the same fiscal year, which was…
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