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JIEDDO To Fold Funding Request Into FY ’10 Base Budget

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Friday, December 12th, 2008

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By Marina Malenic Funding for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) will likely be requested entirely in the Defense Department's base budget in fiscal year 2010, with responsibility for the organization's electronic jamming programs slated to become the responsibility of the individual military services, the head of the organization said yesterday. "As we offered input to the president's budget...we wanted to build in the base budget what we felt would be our enduring and sustaining cost," Army Lt.…

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