Small Diameter Bomb needs more suppliers, DOD office says

A Pentagon policy shop is questioning the Defense Department's decision to pick only one supplier for the Small Diameter Bomb (SDB), saying the United States needs a broader industrial base to keep its technological edge in such precision weapons. The Air Force announced in August 2003 that it had...

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