Pentagon officials seem to have settled on a number—between $13 and $15 billion—to be slashed from the Fiscal 2007 defense budget, according to Defense News. Sources told the Washington weekly the dire news, adding that tens of billions more cuts would follow in other years. Officials expect to see the 2007 split for each service in November.
The Space Development Agency wants to launch hundreds of satellites into low-Earth orbit over the next few years—and thanks to a new contract, it now has a way to get rid of some when their service life is over.
