The $440-billion U.S. Defense Dept.

The $440-billion U.S. Defense Dept. Fiscal 2006 appropriations bill passed by the Senate recently allots $16.4 million to develop technologies to protect military and commercial aircraft from man-portable air defense systems (Manpads). That was $3 million more than the Pentagon requested to develop...

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