Pentagon OKs Funding For Hellfire Replacement Effort

By Jason Sherman / January 26, 2007 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon comptroller has directed the Army and Navy to pony up $68.5 million to fund missile research and development in an account that could be used to revive the Joint Common Missile -- or something like it -- more than two years after the Office of the Secretary of Defense moved to terminate the program. Tina Jonas, the Defense Department's chief financial officer, on Dec. 22 directed the Army to shift $53.5 million from its "Other Missile Procurement Product...

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