Lawmakers slashed $327 million from a $1.8 billion reprogramming request the Pentagon sent Congress in July, axing many new-start programs in the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance arena that defense officials had hoped to get off the ground late in fiscal year 2008, according to a revised copy of the document released by the Pentagon this week. The Senate Appropriations Committee, for example, reduced a reprogramming request to buy and modify six commercial PC-12 aircraft from $136 million to $70 million,...
