Does She Have the Clout Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has announced she will fight any effort to give Boeing’s work on the Future Imagery Architecture satellite program to Lockheed Martin. (DR, 09/26/05) Harman said that Boeing has admitted that “mistakes” were made on the program, but she said “those mistakes are now corrected.” She is concerned that such a move would be “heartbreaking for many tireless workers” in her Congressional district.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
