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Air Force

Multiple Weapons Changes In Final DoD Policy Bill

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

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The House is poised to vote today on a final Pentagon policy bill that changes the Pentagon’s plans for numerous systems including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Medium Air Extended Defense System (MEADS). Meanwhile, defense appropriations legislation, setting the Pentagon’s budget at $518 billion, was stalled on Capitol Hill yesterday amid partisan squabbling. All of the work on the final defense bills for fiscal year 2012, which started Oct. 1, is being done as lawmakers try to wrap up and…

Army

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Congress

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Army

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Congress

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