Air Force Under Secretary Peter Teets said he hopes to inject up to an additional $200 million per year into the fiscal year 2004 program objective memorandum for what some say are neglected elements of the nation's next-generation of rockets coming on line this year. Yet, critics of the risk avoidance plan question whether the Pentagon would be able to fund it. Teets, also director of the National Reconnaissance Office, which buys and operates U.S. intelligence satellites, has consistently emphasized...
