Cohen: Pentagon's FY-01 Budget Will Reflect Kosovo Experience

By Thomas Duffy, Keith Costa / January 28, 2000 at 5:00 AM
Defense Secretary William Cohen said today the fiscal year 2001 defense budget the Clinton administration will send to Congress next month reflects lessons learned from the military's experience in Kosovo with money going toward the purchase of additional airborne electronic warfare assets and precision weapons such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition. Speaking with reporters at the Pentagon, Cohen said the budget supports another squadron of EA-6B electronic jamming aircraft, one Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar aircraft, additional Hawkeye unmanned...

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