The House Appropriations Committee has directed a significant reordering of the Pentagon's budget structure to give much greater visibility to the approximately $20 billion annually spent on space programs, a move that budget experts say will make it more difficult for space program budgets to be raided to pay for other modernization efforts. The House panel, in its version of the fiscal year 2008 defense spending bill, calls for the defense secretary to establish the new "major force program for...
