The Biden administration is requesting $259 billion for the Department of Air Force in its fiscal 2024 budget, an increase of more than $9 billion or about 4 percent over this year. Not all that money would go to the Air Force and Space Force, ...
President Joe Biden’s administration released its proposed 2024 budget on March 9, including $842 billion for the Department of Defense—and while the Pentagon has yet to offer many specific details on how that money would be spent, the White House said its spending plan “builds ...
Department of the Air Force leaders have sweeping plans for the year ahead, promising the initial work on several futuristic headline programs. The details on the Air Force priorities are soon to be revealed in detail in the Fiscal 2024 budget request. But whether Congress ...
The Air Force will field 200 Next-Generation Air Dominance aircraft and notionally 1,000 Collaborative Combat Aircraft, and will request funds in the fiscal 2024 budget to develop these new systems, Secretary Frank Kendall said in his keynote address at the AFA Warfare Symposium on March ...
After back-to-back years of significant spending increases for defense, Congressional hawks may face stiffer opposition in the year ahead, with pushback from members of both major political parties.
Nearly 50 members of Congress have urged Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III to fund a new phase of development for advanced fighter engines in the fiscal 2024 budget, sending a letter to the Pentagon on Oct. 7. The letter, signed by 49 lawmakers from ...
