The Defense Department is drawing up a short list of Army, Navy and Air Force weapon system programs that could be terminated or significantly pared back in the coming weeks as the Pentagon's fiscal year 2007 budget request takes final shape. Gordon England, the acting deputy defense secretary, and Tina Jonas, the Defense Department's comptroller, met last week at the White House with senior aides to the president, including chief of staff Andrew Card, to discuss the Pentagon's FY-07 budget...
