January 9th, 2010
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Gates ordered restoration of $285 million in 2011 and $1.843 billion overall through 2015 on the C-130 program.
He also told the Air Force to restore $2.4 billion for an Internet-like radio that Lockheed Martin Corp. is building for aircraft and vessels. [...]
January 7th, 2010
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More than $2.8 billion that was budgeted earlier to buy the militarys next-generation fighter would instead be used to continue its development.
The delay is a setback for both Gates and Lockheed.
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December 18th, 2009
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Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said there are already more than 100,000 Defense Department contractors in Afghanistan and that figure could grow to 160,000 to support the surge of U.S. troops ordered by President Barack Obama earlier this month.
But McCaskill, who heads the Senate contracting oversight subcommittee, said the evidence suggests that the hard lessons learned [...]
October 24th, 2009
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The Senate, by a vote of 68 to 29 yesterday, passed a $680 billion defense bill that authorizes spending for military programs and sets policy. The measure passed the House Oct. 8 and now goes to President Barack Obama.
White House officials [...]
October 23rd, 2009
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In opening comments at the start of annual joint security talks in Seoul today, Gates and his South Korean counterpart, Defense Minister Kim Tae Young, vowed to strengthen their alliance to confront threats from North Korea.
“The United States will continue to [...]
October 9th, 2009
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“No American should ever have to suffer persecution or violence because of who they are, how they look or what they believe,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., noting that hate crimes legislation has been on her agenda since she first entered Congress more than two decades ago.
She added that its been 11 years since [...]
October 1st, 2009
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The prime target during the Reagan era was Russian missiles. A scaled-down defensive system recently proposed by the Obama administration would aim to shoot down warheads from Iran, which has heightened concerns by building a clandestine uranium enrichment plant and test firing missiles this week with a range of up to 1,200 miles.
But even as [...]
September 18th, 2009
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The old idea was that Iran was focused on building long-range ballistic missiles capable of hitting Europe and the U.S., although it so far has none in its arsenal. So the defense plan inherited by President Barack Obama was based on interceptors and radar primed to shoot down a long-range missile.
The new view is that [...]
September 17th, 2009
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The prime minister of the Czech Republic, one of two countries where the system was to be built, said Thursday that President Barack Obama had told him the United States would abandon the plan.
Jan Fischer said Obama telephoned him to say that Washington no longer intends to put 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a [...]
August 14th, 2009
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Under an agreement between the Navy and Kuchera Defense Systems of Windber, Pa., the company has made changes in its accounting practices in exchange for authority to seek government contracts again, Kucheras lawyer said Thursday night.
The Navy alleged fraud when it suspended the company, which has grown in recent years because of millions of dollars [...]