Pentagon officials seem to have settled on a number—between $13 and $15 billion—to be slashed from the Fiscal 2007 defense budget, according to Defense News. Sources told the Washington weekly the dire news, adding that tens of billions more cuts would follow in other years. Officials expect to see the 2007 split for each service in November.
House lawmakers are moving to keep the Air Force’s E-7 Wedgetail development program alive after the Pentagon announced plans to wind it down in the coming years.