The U.S. Senate's Defense Appropriations Subcommittee will conduct a hearing today in Washington, D.C., where officials with the U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command (SDMC) will have to justify why $13.6 million in federal funding should be cut at the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility at White Sands Missile Range.
The reduced funding is part of the proposed 2008 fiscal year budget President Bush has submitted to Congress. Bush's request is to cut HELSTF funding for research, development, testing and evaluation from $16.4 million this year to $2.8 million for the federal government's 2008 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
It's been almost six years since I left...amazing how fast time has flown.
Well, for those of us who still are there, this is just "more of the same." How many times have we been faced with shutting down the site in the past 25 years? Five? Six?
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That you Nick?
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