Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said today he wants to add money to the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile program to accelerate its production and is looking at the fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriation as the vehicle to do it. During a hearing today on the Pentagon's missile defense programs, Stevens asked Lt. Gen. Ron Kadish, director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, if production of the PAC-3 missile could be accelerated to get the...
