"Some in Washington [D.C.]
want to spike the [U.S. Air
Force’s KC-767 tanker]
leasing agreement solely to
play politics. That’s wrong. We
should be promoting national
security, economic security and
job security—exactly what the
American people elect their
leaders to do."
— Dennis Hastert, Speaker, U.S.
House of Representatives, in a letter to the
Washington Post on Sept. 18 |
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"The aircraft has done quite
well in its tests. And to
the extent it continues to
pass through these various test
hurdles, my guess is it would go
forward, because it is something
that the Marines and the Special
Operation Forces are quite interested
in having, and it’s currently
in the budget."
— Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary
of Defense, speaking about the V-22 Osprey, at a Sept. 10
National Press Club luncheon in Washington, D.C. |
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Future Combat Systems
"will prove whether or
not we can get great
leverage out of information
and knowledge management.
We can make the [U.S.] Army
much more deployable and
much more robust."
— Jim Albaugh, Boeing Integrated
Defense
Systems president and CEO, quoted in the
St. Louis Business Journal, Sept. 13 |
