A House Armed Services Committee subcommittee approved $51.5 billion for the U.S. Department of Defense's space and missile defense programs for fiscal 2007, shifting some dollars away from high-risk systems to more proven technologies. "The subcommittee is concerned with striking the right balance between technical risks and providing increased capability for the warfighter," Rep. Terry…

A key House Armed Services Committee (HASC) member is warning contractors to make sure satellite and other space-based technologies are mature before fielding them or risk losing congressional support. "We've got to get control of this," Rep. Terry Everett (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services strategic force subcommittee, told sister publication Defense Daily in…