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Down To The Funding Wire, Italian Defense Minister Urges SecDef Support

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

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In a letter this week to U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Italian Defense Minister Adm. Giampaolo Di Paola urged an effort to continue funding the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). The MEADS program is in financial jeopardy. Di Paola writes: “Three committees have zeroed the expected U.S. financial contribution for the year 2013 and this virtually means the termination of the Program even before the conclusion of the internationally agreed Design and Development (D&D) phase.” The U.S. defense budget…

Congress

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