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House Panel Meets With Contractors To Discuss ‘Overhead Architecture’

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Thursday, October 11th, 2007

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By Jen DiMascio A House Intelligence subcommittee is holding a series of "tabletop" discussions with defense contractors in response to failures in the nation's satellites and growing Russian and Chinese sophistication in space. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), the chairman of the House subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence, said he is working with the office of the Director of National Intelligence, meeting with all of the major defense contractors for their input on the "overhead architecture" successes and failures of…

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Replacement Munitions May Not Be One-for-One; May Include New Weapons Chemistries, Wittman Says

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