The House Appropriations Committee, in its mark of the Pentagon's fiscal year 2012 spending bill, proposes cutting $100 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's spending request, a reduction lawmakers believe is equal to cost savings that will be produced by corporate strategies designed to improve efficiency.
The DARPA director, according to documents reviewed by InsideDefense.com, would be directed by the committee to prepare a report detailing how the panel's proposed reduction would be spread across the agency.