By Emelie Rutherford The lengthy $3 billion reprogramming request the Pentagon sent to Congress last week seeks to shift funding to cover 10 "new-start" efforts, including buying communications- relaying aircraft and developing gunships for use in theater. While lawmakers tend to be cautious about allowing new starts via reprogrammed funds, it remains to be seen how they react to this fiscal year 2008 omnibus reprogramming action signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England July 11. A significant new-start request seeks…
Pentagon Seeks Array of New Starts In Reprogramming Request
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