BILL TO UPGRADE BASE FACILITIES CLEARS HOUSE.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer A military construction appropriations bill containing $12 million for replacing homes at Edwards and $10 million for an aircraft hangar renovation was approved by the House of Representatives. The bill includes $12 million for replacing homes at Edwards. Base officials have been working steadily on a multiyear program to replace cramped cramped adj. 1. Uncomfortably small or restricted: cramped living quarters. 2. Difficult to read, especially for being crowded into a small space: cramped handwriting. , aging homes built in the 1950s with new and renovated sites. ``Base housing is always an issue for Edwards,'' said Rep (programming) REP - A directive used in IBM object code card decks (and later PTF Tapes) to REPlace fragments of already assembled or compiled object code prior to link edit. . Howard ``Buck'' McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, a member of the House National Security Committee. ``We must provide adequate housing for the men and women serving our nation so proudly at Edwards.'' The Edwards housing money is part of a $660 million military housing component of the bill. The House bumped up the president's budget request by $49 million, saying not enough was being done to improve the quality of life for military personnel. The bill includes $10 million to improve fire detection and electrical systems in a 40-year-old hangar. The hangar will be used for consolidating aircraft maintenance. The House is expected to vote today on the 1999 defense appropriations bill, which includes $421.5 million for work on the B-2 stealth stealth Any military technology intended to make vehicles or missiles nearly invisible to enemy radar or other electronic detection. Research in antidetection technology began soon after radar was invented. bomber bomber Military aircraft designed to drop bombs on surface targets. Aerial bombardment can be traced to the Italo-Turkish War (1911), in which an Italian pilot dropped grenades on two Turkish targets. fleet, $86 million above the president's budget request. The money will go toward modifying the B-2 fleet to carry additional types of weapons. The vote will come just a week after the General Accounting Office, the auditing arm of Congress, released a report critical of the B-2 program. The report states the Air Force will need to make $144 million in additional improvements to stealth materials and structures for the bomber fleet, including improving tape, caulk caulk also calk v. caulked also calked, caulk·ing also calk·ing, caulks also calks v.tr. 1. , paint and heat tiles. ``We believe the problems are solvable and that they will be fixed,'' said David Foy, spokesman for McKeon, whose district includes the B-2 modification site at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale. Of the ammunition This article is largely based on the article in the out-of-copyright 11th edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica, which was produced in 1911. It should be brought up to date to reflect subsequent history or scholarship (including the references, if any). B-2 supporters have for increasing funding for the bomber modifications is a report by the Long-Range Airpower air·pow·er or air power n. 1. The organized, integrated use of aircraft and missiles for purposes of foreign policy, strategy, operations, and tactics. 2. The tactical and strategic strength of a country's air force. Review Panel, a congressionally appointed committee that was chaired by retired Air Force General Larry Welch Welch , William Henry 1850-1934. American pathologist and bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes gas gangrene. . The panel concluded an additional $157 million should be allocated to begin such improvements as enhancing the aircraft's ability to use precision-guided weapons and the construction of maintenance facilities and support equipment needed for operating the bomber from overseas bases. The panel recommended against building more B-2s, saying money would be better spent on upgrading the fleet. The earliest a new B-2 could come off the assembly line would 2005. Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. employs about 2,700 people in Palmdale on the B-2 modifications. Originally, modifications to the bomber fleet were scheduled to end in 1999. The bill also includes $10.3 million in electronics equipment upgrades and other improvements to U-2 spy planes. |
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