The Missile Defense Agency should increase the amount of research and development money available for small businesses, a pair of senators has told the Pentagon. In a Jan. 29 letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) and ranking member Kit Bond (R-MO) say they "strongly disagree" with a provision in the fiscal year 2002 Defense Appropriations Act that exempts the Pentagon's missile defense programs from full participation in the Small Business...
