US Army to Spend Another $1.5 Bln on Armor, Troop Protection
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The US Army plans to spend $1.5 billion to protect troops in Iraq by installing armor on truck cabs and fuel tankers and buying new armored security vehicles and technology to jam remote-controlled bombs.
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New Jersey is collecting used  bulletproof vests for U.S. troops in Iraq to use as armor for  their vehicles, following complaints that soldiers were  underprotected.
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Booming orders for new military  aircraft boosted overall orders to U.S. factories by 0.5  percent to a seasonally adjusted $371.51 billion in October,  the Commerce Department said on Thursday, though demand was  flat when defense was excluded.
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The Defense Department said on  Thursday it would field questions from the public about a $1  million contest to build a lightweight, wearable battery power  system for U.S. forces.
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Under fire from troops who complain they are being sent to war in Iraq with inadequate gear, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised Thursday that more would be done to protect forces.
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Halliburton said Tuesday that the US Army had decided not to grant it additional time to substantiate its costs for feeding and housing American troops in Iraq and Kuwait, a decision that could cost the company 15 percent of its payment.
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President Bush will seek $419.3 billion for the Defense Department in the fiscal year that begins this October, a 4.8 percent increase over this year's spending, not counting the cost of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a Defense Department document obtained by The Washington Post.
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Armor Holdings Inc.&#39;s order from the US Army last week to accelerate monthly production of heavily armored Humvee military vehicles won&#39;t increase the total number of the vehicles destined for Iraq, the Army said.
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Boosting U.S. troop levels in Iraq by 21,500 would create major logistical hurdles for the Army and Marine Corps, which are short thousands of vehicles, armor kits and other equipment needed to supply the extra forces, U.S. officials said.
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The defense-related work is estimated to be worth $200 billion.
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The military is refocusing spending from its vision of a transformed fighting force to the more down-to-earth needs of its ground troops because of rising war costs and a stubborn budget deficit.
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A Pentagon spending spree aims to replace the vulnerable Humvee with more than 6,000 mine-resistant ambush-protection vehicles, or MRAPs, just as a stopgap. Then comes a different bruiser in 2012. In Danger Room.
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The U.S. Army expects to keep its troop strength in Iraq at the current level of about 120,000 for at least two more years, according to the Army's top operations officer.
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South Korea plans to spend 10 percent   more on defense next year to boost its arsenal of high-tech   weapons, while reducing the number of troops in uniform, the   defense ministry said on Wednesday.
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US Army orders more IED detecting robots and gear to upgrade others.
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China plans to boost defense spending by 17.8 percent in 2007, continuing the emerging power's stretch of double-digit annual increases in money for missiles, tanks and the building blocks of military modernization.
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The U.S. military plans to significantly expand and accelerate its counterinsurgency training and provision of equipment for Pakistan's armed forces this year as part of a five-year, $2 billion U.S.-Pakistani effort to help stabilize the country, senior U.S. and Pakistani officials said.