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Market Sectors :: Congress
Displaying 1 - 20 of 215 stories.
May 9, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford The dual-year war-supplemental bill House and Senate lawmakers are expected to address next week includes at least $42 billion for buying systems including F/A-18 Super Hornet strike aircraft and an array of tactical vehicles. Aides said...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2611.html May 9, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford Three House panels yesterday recommended changes to the White House's proposed defense budget including tacking on up to four additional Navy ships, calling for irregular- warfare organizational changes in the Pentagon and adding nearly...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2615.html May 8, 2008
By Dave Ahearn A House subcommittee yesterday pushed forward legislation ordering studies into missile defense programs, including the proposed European Missile Defense (EMD) system. The House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2590.html May 8, 2008
By Calvin Biesecker New legislation introduced yesterday by the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to form a working group with industry stakeholders to help find the best way for airports...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2594.html May 8, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford A House subcommittee yesterday called for cutting the Pentagon's budget request for the Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) and Future Combat Systems (FCS) efforts, while advising adding supplemental funds to keep F-22 jets and C-17...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2598.html May 7, 2008
By Geoff Fein The Navy is in the process of preparing to release a request for proposal (RFP) in June for Increment II of its presidential helicopter, as the service looks to put the troubled program back on track The RFP is required because of the changes...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2589.html May 5, 2008
Missile and missile defense programs were little mentioned during a lengthy congressional hearing where some major defense procurement programs were flailed for being over budget, under performance goals and behind schedule. Because missile defense programs...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2565.html May 5, 2008
Military Needs To Better Coordinate Which Weapons Systems To Use In Prompt Global Strike: GAO Report
The Department of Defense (DOD) needs to better coordinate which weapons systems should be used, and how they would be selected, for employment in global strike operations, including Prompt Global Strike, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) stated...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2570.html May 5, 2008
Northrop Says Lockheed Joins Its Bid For GPS Work Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] recruited Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] to join a team competing for the Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Control Segment (OCX) Phase B contract. The OCX...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2571.html April 28, 2008
German Envoy Says U.S. Leaders Gates, Rice, 'Brilliant' In Handling Russian Objection To Installing Missile Defense System In Europe If ongoing Iranian production of nuclear materials leads to Iran wielding nuclear weapons in the Middle East, that would be a...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2475.html April 28, 2008
Obama Criticizes Clinton For Issuing Warning, Sees 'Saber Rattling' Iran must not be so reckless as to launch a nuclear attack on Israel, because the United States would retaliate and "totally obliterate" Iran, Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York, a...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2476.html April 28, 2008
Weather, Technical And Logistics Problems, Could Prevent NASA From Finishing International Station By 2010 Deadline NASA faces a daunting challenge in completing the International Space Station (ISS) by the October 2010 deadline for retirement of the space...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2477.html April 28, 2008
Lawmakers who control the purse strings for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) see the emergent multi-layered U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield proceeding well, meaning the legislators are likely to provide robust support for the agency. It is seeking...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2478.html April 28, 2008
The Department of Defense (DOD), while making progress in its operationally responsive space (ORS) programs over the past two years, needs to take additional steps to ensure that ORS requirements of combatant commanders are met, according to a Government...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2479.html April 21, 2008
A Test, However, Shows White Target Missile Body Blasted Wide Open In Airborne Laser Ground Shot This is what the Airborne Laser can do to the body of a missile covered with white paint. The picture was taken after a ground test of the laser. A former senior...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2417.html April 21, 2008
Space Based Radar Needed Because Ground Radars Blind In Some Spots Europeans Would Welcome Mobile Kinetic Energy Interceptor Missile Defense Some nations are interested in buying the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile defense (BMD)...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2420.html April 21, 2008
Total Destruction Of Buildings Near Blast Would Be Followed By Widespread Fatalities In Radioactive Fallout Over Many Miles Even a small, primitive nuclear bomb detonated on the National Mall in Washington would inflict enormously devastating damage over a...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2422.html April 21, 2008
Another Minuteman Overhaul May Be Needed U.S. moves to form a multi-layered ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield help to avert conflict, much as the vast U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons dissuades any who otherwise would attack American targets, a general...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2423.html April 21, 2008
The federal government needs to step up to the challenge and fully fund myriad defense programs, specifically including procurement of ships, tanks, planes, missiles and more, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) stated in a new report. The AIA noted...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2424.html April 18, 2008
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate will wait and see what the House does on a proposal to merge fiscal year 2008 and 2009 supplemental war-funding measures into one large bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said yesterday. House leaders have been...http://www.ddn.com/sectors/congress/2410.html
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