By Emelie Rutherford Congress nixed the Pentagon's attempt to rejigger millions of dollars in its coffers for re-engining a troubled intelligence-gathering aircraft and launching several new weapons programs. The four congressional defense panels approved many of the money shifts in the Pentagon's omnibus fiscal year 2009 reprogramming request. Yet the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) blocked the Pentagon from moving around $63.4 million in Air Forc-e research and development monies for re-engining the E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS)…
JSTARS And New Starts Lose, Bunker-Busting Bomb Wins In DoD Money Shift
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