MDA Assessing How to Cut $5 Billion Over Six Years

By Dan Dupont / January 4, 2005 at 5:00 AM
The Missile Defense Agency is assessing how it will meet a Pentagon demand to trim $5 billion from its budget over the next six years, according to industry and government sources. The MDA budget cut was among many made in program budget decision No. 753 , signed Dec. 23 by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. The document was obtained and first reported by InsideDefense.com Dec. 30. The PBD provides little detail on the MDA cut, stating only that the Pentagon...

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