Pentagon officials are lobbying lawmakers in an attempt to avert looming budget cuts to key command and control, navigation and hypersonics research programs. In an Aug. 28 package of appeals sent to leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees in advance of the panels' conference on the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bill, the Pentagon criticizes the Senate's attempt to cut the Net-Enabled Command Capability (NECC) program by $123 million in FY-09. Senate authorizers, in a report accompanying...
