The Defense Department's acting research and engineering chief is calling on industry to throw its support behind the president's defense budget and take that message to Congress. "Industry, I know you go talk to your friends on the Hill," Al Shaffer said Tuesday at a National Defense Industrial Association event in Springfield, VA. "It's a very key message from the department: We like the fiscal year '16 budget request, even though that request is some $35 to $38 billion above...
