House appropriators want to put $65 million into the base defense budget for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization due to a lack of an overseas contingency operations request from the Pentagon, according to a congressional source. Because DOD has yet to submit an OCO request to Congress, the House Appropriations Committee thought that funding staff and infrastructure for JIEDDO in the base budget was more appropriate, the source said. JIEDDO -- created to combat IEDs in Iraq and...
