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President signs Defense authorization bill
President Bush on Thursday signed into law a bill authorizing Defense Department programs for fiscal 2005.
The statute authorizes $445.6 billion for Defense and the national security programs of the Energy Department, including $11.2 billion for the department's science and technology program and $60.2 million for a technology program to combat terrorism.
The law also authorizes $40 million to develop a real-time satellite communications system for troops. Another $230 million will go toward unmanned aerial vehicles, night-vision equipment and electromagnetic propulsion technology for gun systems.
And the law contains a provision that requires Defense to plan a transition to the next version of the Internet, Internet protocol version 6.
COMMENTS
- Why doesn't this great leader stop the acquisition of the F22 and divert all those funds into equipment for the troops in Iraq? He has the money but lacks the will to support the troops properly. The administration would rather keep the money flowing to their friends that contribute to their continued employment in the rape of the country's treasury. tax payer Posted November 1, 2004 6:56 AM
