The Defense Department’s research, development, test and evaluation budget request represents a 4 percent increase from FY23 levels, according to budget documents.
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By Breaking Defense
“For me, this isn’t just about how much money we spend on defense, this is about how we spend the money,” SASC ranking member Sen. Jim Inhofe said. “And we need a higher top line because what’s in this budget right now is not nearly enough to make up for lost time.”
By Jaspreet Gill
The Air Force’s new investment strategy is designed to “catalyze the commercial market by bringing our military market to bear,” says Roper.
By Theresa Hitchens
WASHINGTON: In a sign of how strange the budget process has become, the House Appropriations Committee has approved a defense spending bill that basically gives Secretary Jim Mattis a $28.6 billion blank check. Scattered across seven different accounts in the base and Overseas Contingency Operations budgets, it’s called the National Defense Restoration Fund, and it makes…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
CAPITOL HILL: Heather Wilson began her first public speech as Air Force Secretary with a paean to technology, highlighting the service’s history of innovation from the B-29 to the F-117 to the F-35. It would have been an unambiguous signal of administration priorities, except the budget doesn’t really back her up. Research and development funding…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
