The Defense Department is preparing a new $5.3 billion spending request to purchase thousands of additional Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles in fiscal year 2008, bringing the two-year total slated at this point for the blast-proof truck program to more than $11 billion. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told the House Budget Committee today that the Pentagon plans to revise its FY-08 supplemental war cost request by advancing a $5.3 billion increase for purchasing additional MRAP vehicles, a sum that...
