The Senate Appropriations Committee on Sept. 15 approved a fiscal year 2012 defense-spending bill that guts funding for the Army's Ground Combat Vehicle, kills development of a weather satellite and cuts a major missile defense program. The bill also cuts development funding for the VXX presidential helicopter, citing delays in the naval effort to build the Marine One of tomorrow. And the legislation warns the future of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Pentagon's biggest acquisition program, could be in...
