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JIEDDO Scrambling For Cash Without Supplemental Funding

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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

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By Jen DiMascio As of Dec. 1, the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) will have no more funding for new contracts and will only sustain current contracts and keep its headquarters staff and intelligence analysis operations running. "We are going to run out of money," retired Army Gen. Montgomery Meigs told reporters during a Pentagon briefing yesterday. Although the organization has $120 million in funding from the Pentagon's annual budget, the bulk of the JIEDDO's high-powered budget comes…

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