Lawmakers have approved a Pentagon request to shift more than $300 million between missile defense accounts to support immediate needs, including funding required to avoid a stop-work order on the Next Generation Aegis Missile -- a weapon that figures prominently in the Obama administration's plan to defend Europe from Iranian missiles. On April 6, Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale sent lawmakers a $311.5 million reprogramming request to shift fiscal year 2012 missile defense funding "in support of higher-priority items based on...
