The Defense Department is preparing to boost funding for the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle program by as much as $1.5 billion, which could lift total spending for in fiscal year 2007 as high as $5.3 billion and raise prospects for additional production orders during the last 10 weeks of the fiscal year. Tina Jonas, the Pentagon comptroller, was on Tuesday hammering out the final details of a reprogramming request that asks Congress to pull $600 million from the Strategic...
