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From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: budgets
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Date: 12 May 89 02:47:41 GMT
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From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU

While I was looking at the summary of weapons program budget items in
the Navy, some questions come to mind. 

If I understand this correctly, there is a budget request followed by
an authorization. Then some amount is actually bought or delivered.
1. Are the items basically specified in dollar amounts or in number of
   items to be purchased?
2. When the amount bought/delivered does not match the authorization,
   what happens?
3. What happens to left over money?
4. What happens if things go a little bit over? 
5. How easily can money be moved around between these accounts?
6. On a few items, it looks like the Navy recieved more than it
   requested. How can this happen?

On the Tomahawk line, there were different variants listed:
	TASM	(Tomahawk anti-ship missile)
        TLAM-N	(Tomahawk land attack missile, nuclear)
	TLAM-C	(Tomahawk land attack missile, conventional)
	TLAM-D  (Tomahawk land attack missile, ?)

Does anyone know what is the "D" version of the TLAM?

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