A portrait exhibition of more than 1,300 servicemembers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan has been extended until March 31, 2006, at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Arlington, Va. Since opening in March 2005, “Faces of the Fallen: America’s Artists Honor America’s Heroes” has drawn close to a quarter million visitors and has been named one of the best exhibitions of 2005 in the Washington D.C. area. (Go here for more information about the exhibit, but when we checked today, the closing date still showed December 2005, which was also an extension.)
The emphasis on speed in the Pentagon’s newly unveiled slate of acquisition reforms may come with increased near-term cost increases, analysts say. But according to U.S. defense officials, the new weapons-buying construct provides the military with enough flexibility to prevent runaway budget overruns in major programs.
