By Marina Malenic A top Pentagon official this week again pressed Congress to pass a budget for the fiscal year that began four months ago. "We do not have an appropriations bill for fiscal year '11," said Ashton Carter, the Defense Department's chief arms buyer. "What that means is that each and every program manager in the department is having to upset carefully calibrated plans, stop or slow activities, only to restart them later. "The result is not only delay,…
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