To ensure it can buy every Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle that industry is capable of producing, the Defense Department is considering shifting hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming weeks to pump more cash into coffers used to place orders for additional blast-resistant vehicles. The Pentagon effectively is aiming to supplement $3.8 billion Congress appropriated for MRAP in fiscal year 2007 in order to fulfill Defense Secretary Robert Gates' directive to do whatever is necessary to accelerate the...
