A key congressional defense committee has denied the Pentagon's request for funding to implement the recommendations of the Strategic Communications Execution Roadmap, a spin-off from last year's Quadrennial Defense Review and a priority of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The Senate Armed Services Committee, in a report accompanying its version of the fiscal year 2008 defense authorization bill, rejected the Pentagon's $3 million request to hire a private firm to assist the Office of the Secretary of Defense in institutionalizing...
