The continuing resolution may make it difficult to award the long-awaited KC-X tanker contract. But outside budget experts say there’s a small chance a loophole may exist. “There is something known as the Feed and Forage Act [that] allows the Defense Department to spend money in the advance of an appropriation,” said Stan Collender of Qorvis during the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments’ briefing on the forthcoming Fiscal 2012 budget Thursday in Washington, D.C. However, Todd Harrison, CSBA senior fellow, said “it would be tough to justify” using Feed and Forage for tanker procurement since the first new tanker won’t come online for at least several years. “It’s not directly related to the wars that we are in right now” and it wouldn’t immediately be “supporting the troops on the battlefield,” he explained. The department has invoked the obscure act only once in the past decade or so. That was immediately following 9/11.
Celebrating 100 Years of Liquid-Fueled Rockets
March 11, 2026
March 16, 2026, marks 100 years since Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket. Over the past century, new and ever more capable liquid-fueled rockets have literally propelled humanity into space. Why liquid-fueled rockets?