More things that go boom

The Navy is hoping the stimulus bill will pay for more missiles, and fighter jets, and torpedoes.

The gazillion dollar economic aid package, making its way through Congress, puts a premium on projects that can generate jobs, ASAP. So the Pentagon has given "some suggestions in terms of military hospitals, clinics, barracks, some child-care centers and things like that, where we think the work could begin right away or is already under way and could be accelerated," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told senators the other day.

But an internal Navy memo, obtained by InsideDefense.com ace Chris Castelli, goes farther than these mom-and-apple-pie construction projects....

[From Navy's Idea of 'Stimulus': Torpedoes, Missiles, Jets (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com]