The House Armed Services Committee is recommending reallocating funding for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund to ensure the money is provided through the "appropriate" accounts. In its version of the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill -- approved by the full House last week -- the committee moves nearly $565 million in Army procurement funding for the JIEDDF to Army research, development, test and evaluation and Army operations and maintenance accounts. Because the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat...
