In a bid to keep cash flowing to the Pentagon's No. 1 acquisition effort, congressional appropriators today shifted $11.6 billion into the Defense Department's fiscal year 2008 base budget for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle program, a move intended to support contract awards for 6,500 additional vehicles next month. House and Senate lawmakers hammering out a single FY-08 defense appropriations conference report today agreed to a $459.3 billion spending package that provides the balance of the $16.7 billion for...
