The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), in its version of the FY '12 defense policy bill, is requesting that the Pentagon cut all of its $406.6 million it requested for the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program, a three-nation air-defense program that under current plans the United States would have to pay $800 million to exit in 2014. The Pentagon wants to stick with the program until 2013 to avoid contract-termination costs. But SASC Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said…
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