The Pentagon, which is preparing a preliminary spending request to cover the purchase of 8,000 additional Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles in fiscal year 2008, plans to increase its funding proposal in September if makers of the blast-proof trucks demonstrate the ability to produce additional vehicles, according to a senior Defense Department official. John Young, head of the Pentagon's MRAP Task Force, said the Pentagon's fiscal year 2008 supplemental spending request to finance operations in Iraq will be modified to...
