The Pentagon is requesting $240 million for space situational awareness programs in its fiscal year 2009 budget, a 21 percent increase from the $190 million projected last year. This increase is not part of the $100 million infused into the program as part of the FY-08 Defense Appropriations Act, Air Force officials told reporters in a Feb. 1 briefing in the Pentagon. "We got a clear understanding from congressional staffers that they were concerned, that they would be receptive to...
