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Air Force

HAC-D Wants To End 2nd Engine, Cut Weapons Accounts

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

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House defense appropriators want to kill the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine and trim the Pentagon’s requested levels of procurement and research funding in the budget bill they plan to approve today. The House Appropriations Defense subcommittee (HAC-D) released a draft of its fiscal year 2012 defense appropriations bill yesterday, before it is set to mark up the bill in a closed hearing today. The subcommittee’s plan calls for cutting President Barack Obama’s $539.5 billion defense budget request by…

Missile Defense

Guetlein On Golden Dome: ‘We Cannot Protect This Nation And Bankrupt It At The Same Time’

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Missile Defense

Interview with Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus

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Space

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Congress

Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Urge Trump Admin Support For Marines’ JLTV Second Supplier Effort

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