Veterans’ medical care got a big budget boost, thanks to a unanimous Senate vote, approving an increase of $4 billion to the VA’s Fiscal 2006 budget. The boost should cure the shortfall the VA says it identified after turning in its 2006 budget request. (Read our report on the shortfall here.)
Research and development spending on the Air Force’s sixth-generation F-47 fighter and its advanced propulsion system is expected to peak in 2028 before dropping in the following years, according to Air Force budget documents.