The Defense Department is upgrading Navy P-3 aircraft, originally designed to scour wide swaths of open ocean for Soviet submarines, to assist in the hunt for roadside bombs in Iraq. Pentagon Comptroller Tina Jonas, in a Sept. 12 reprogramming request, says DOD will move $218.7 million between its fiscal year 2006 accounts to support the Defense Department's efforts to counter improvised explosive devices, weapons that are the scourge of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly $1 million from that...
