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The fact that the Navy found any money at all to build WB-7 or to continue refining it with "keep alive" work is remarkable. At one point they had given up on this research and that is why Dr Bussard had to shut things down. Because they had given up on it, there was no money FY 08 or FY 09 at all f...

The modifications to WB-7 is probably incorporating the items contracted for earlier...

Maybe someone should hit ONR with a Freedom of Information Act request. Then that would at least put them on a timetable to release some information.

Well, I'm pretty confident in saying regardless of the results from Dr. Nebel's experiments the Navy isn't going to drop $200M on a contract to continue the research this fall. FY08 budget is spent. FY09 (starting in Oct) is allocated. You can squeeze $1.8M out of the noise in the R&D budget, maybe ...