Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England is setting aside as much as $2 billion to disburse in coming weeks to select high-priority programs that advance key military capabilities and require additional funding in fiscal year 2008, according to Pentagon officials. These funds are the balance of a previously undisclosed additional $11 billion the White House Office of Management and Budget last month granted the Pentagon for fiscal year 2008. The Army, which this summer advanced an unorthodox request for nearly $25...
