The White House will include program performance ratings of top defense programs -- including the F/A-22 fighter and the national missile defense program -- in budget justification documents sent to Congress with the fiscal year 2004 budget request. In a memorandum issued yesterday to the heads of government departments, Office of Management and Budget Director Mitchell Daniels said the program ratings would be included in the rationales for FY-04 budget requests and would be publicly available on OMB's Internet web...
