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Congress

Defense Costs To Outstrip Funds Available; Immediate, Long-Range, Needs Clash

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Monday, August 25th, 2008

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The U.S. military procurement effort faces an immense disconnect between funding needs and available financing, complicated by new emerging threats such as the loss of sanctuary in space and the ability to assume that satellites and other assets are safe there. A further complication involves a long-standing conflict between urgently immediate requirements of combatant commanders versus the need to procure assets to meet long-range needs. These were some of the unsettling points aired in an hours-long symposium of the Center…

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