$40 million test facility in bill

A Senate subcommittee voted this week to fund a $40 million land-based testing facility that would be built in Pascagoula, Miss. The facility would be used by Northrop Grumman to test electronic and other complex components on the ground prior to installing them on Navy vessels. The Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee cut more than $8 billion from President Obama's request for the Defense Department for 2011. The bill next goes to the full Senate Appropriations Committee. (Source: Mississippi Press, 09/18/10)