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Senate appropriators take a dim view of Pentagon satellite lease plans
Panel says Defense Information Systems Agency did not factor troop drawdowns into its cost analysis.
The Senate Appropriations Committee viewed with skepticism plans by the Defense Information Systems Agency to spend $416 million on a long-term lease of a commercial communications satellite to serve forces deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, according to its report on the 2012 Defense Department budget approved by the committee last Thursday.