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NASA Would Snag Ability To Cancel Constellation Contracts Under Budget Plan

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Monday, April 25th, 2011

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NASA will be allowed to cancel unwanted contracts from the defunct Constellation manned-spaceflight program if Congress passes the massive fiscal year 2011 budget deal reached late last week. The full-year appropriations act for the entire federal government repeals leftover statutory language, crafted by Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) in NASA's FY '10 appropriations act that banned the space agency from ending those business pacts. Congress and President Barack Obama already agreed to kill Constellation, former President George W. Bush's underfunded program…

Congress

Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

Munitions fired in the two-month old “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran represent most of the $25 billion cost the Pentagon has incurred thus far in the conflict, the acting Defense […]

Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

The Pentagon should be using Anthropic‘s recently announced Mythos artificial intelligence model to spot gaps in cyber security, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesda. “I think the thing that […]

Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have introduced the Airpower Acceleration Act, which would authorize multi-year procurements of […]

Congress

HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.– Congress’ work to pass $350 billion in reconciliation funds to support the Trump administration’s push for a $1.5 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense topline is “going to […]