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House Unveils $60B Reconciliation Bill—83% Less than Requested

House lawmakers unveiled a new reconciliation package July 15 with $60 billion for defense, $290 billion less than the Pentagon has been seeking, a day after a Senate vote to advance the annual defense policy bill failed—developments that show the perilous state of the Pentagon’s ...

NRO Director Nominee Sees Relationship with Space Force Evolving

The Space Force has partnered with the the National Reconnaissance Office to get started on key intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance programs but is starting to take more ownership of those efforts, an arrangement the nominee to serve as the next NRO director said is a ...

Thunderbirds Arrive in DC for July 4: ‘You Can Just Feel the Energy’

On July 4, thousands of people will brave 100-degree weather in downtown Washington, D.C., for America’s 250th anniversary. And high above them, the pilots of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will be hot too—not that it will stop their red, white, and blue F-16s.

OMB Says Iran War Cost $30B, Stays Mum on Supplemental

The Pentagon’s cost estimate for its operations against Iran has risen to $30 billion, the director of the Office of Management and Budget told Congress on June 30, as he offered almost no new details on the White House’s supplemental funding request that includes $67.1 billion for the Department ...

OA-1K Crashed After Pilot Mistakenly Turned Off Fuel: New Report

An Air Force pilot learning to fly the new OA-1K inadvertently shut off the plane’s fuel in the middle of a training sortie last October, leading to the Skyraider II crashing in an Oklahoma field, according to a new investigation report. 

Boeing CCA to Fly with US Aircraft in Pacific Exercise

The U.S. Air Force is testing out a Collaborative Combat Aircraft in the Pacific this week as part of a large-scale exercise. But the CCA they’re flying is not one the two the service has committed to buying. Boeing’s MQ-28...

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