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HASC OK’s Weapons Changes, Shields F-35

Julie Samuel

Thursday, June 6th, 2013

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The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is calling for changes to ship, vehicle and missile-defense plans, while rejecting a move to limit F-35 Joint Strike Fighter funding, in the fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill it passed early Thursday morning. The committee approved a slew of amendments to its earlier version of the Pentagon policy legislation during the markup session that ran past midnight on Wednesday. Those legislative tweaks to the bill include an increase in the cost cap for…

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