http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/moneystoryB1212DEFENSE.htmWeldon, Feeney help Brevard grab a share of defense pieBY BRIAN MONROE
FLORIDA TODAY
Each year, there is a tug of war involving the president, the Department of Defense and Congress to see what taxpayer dollars go to which government programs in a usually tight, always finite budget.
Josh Ellis with AirNet Communications in Melbourne works around a Rapid Cell Base Station with multi band. Image by Michael R. Brown, FLORIDA TODAY
Some government programs get cut or canceled, forcing the companies working on those contracts to lobby policymakers to reconsider, or the companies have to adjust to lower-than-expected revenues.
Still, each new budget year also means opportunities for smaller companies to snare funding with technology they say could revolutionize warfare.
The trick: being persuasive enough and bringing enough political pressure to get a company's voice heard. That's where congressional representatives like U.S. Reps. Dave Weldon, R-Melbourne, and Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, enter the fray.
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