“I think Space Force and its advocates hoped that they’d have a radically new approach to budgeting and acquisition,” CSIS’s Mark Cancian says, but Congress is unlikely to agree.
The two air & missile defense batteries will be based at Fort Bliss, Texas, with the first Iron Dome weapons systems arriving from Israeli manufacturer Rafael by the end of the year.
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“This is the start of a new day in the Department of Defense where cybersecurity, as we’ve been saying for years is foundational for acquisitions, we’re putting our money where our mouth is. We mean it,” Katie Arrington says.
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The F-35, the F-22, “even a KC-46 tanker” and ground assets will be able to share data in fiscal 2022, Dunlap says.
Later in the year, the Air Force will take a KC-46 tanker, and put that same communications capability on it so forces can “move data in a much wider bandwidth to many more forces.
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Sources have said the Trump Administration is strongly considering releasing a 2022 federal budget before Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration, a move meant to throw down markers for government spending.
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