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Article: Air Force Defends Key Intel, Missile Defense Program From Cambone Criticism.
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- January 15, 2004
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By Amy Butler
The Air Force is digging in its heels to defend controversial plans to integrate a costly surveillance radar onto a Boeing 767 despite concern from a key aide to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that the service is doing so without proper authority.
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone fired a Dec. 29, 2003, memo to his acquisition counterpart, Michael Wynne, asserting that the Air Force was proceeding without proper approval to build a large-scale variant of the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program radar, which would be used to track moving ground targets and some cruise missiles. Work integrating the ...