The Air Force is asking Congress to retire 150 airplanes in its fiscal 2023 budget, including 33 of its advanced F-22 fighters, but it would also hand off 100 MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft to another government agency and buy more than 82 other new ...
Budget
The Department of the Air Force is requesting $234.1 billion in its 2023 budget request, of which $40.1 billion is "pass-through funds," or money the services will never see, while $169.5 billion is for USAF and $24.5 billion is for the Space Force. The budget ...
The keynote addresses from the Air Force and Space Force chiefs are highlights of AFA’s major conferences, and the 2022 AFA Warfare Symposium was no exception. But this year’s event featured a unique twist: Air Force Chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and Chief of ...
Late on the evening of March 10, the Senate passed a massive omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal 2022, sending it to President Joe Biden for his signature. For the Defense Department, in particular, the bill will provide ...
Concern over inflation has impacted the Pentagon’s planning for the fiscal 2023 budget request, the Defense Department’s top financial official said March 9. But the budget is “substantively” complete, and space figures to be a foundational part of it, Comptroller Mike McCord said at the ...
More than five months after the fiscal year began, Congress unveiled its 2022 spending bill for the Pentagon and the rest of the federal government in the early hours of March 9, with a proposed boost for defense spending.
With just over a week left before the latest continuing resolution to fund the federal government runs out, the service Chiefs of the Air Force and Space Force bemoaned the frequent use of CRs to keep the Pentagon funded, calling the practice “bad,” “frustrating,” and ...
The commission will be tasked with looking at ways to shake up the Pentagon’s planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process.
The COVID-19 pandemic imposed supply chain and labor shortages on the defense industrial base.