Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine conducts a briefing on June 22 on Operation Midnight Hammer (U.S. Navy Photo)
Last year, in their versions of an FY 2025 defense bill, Senate and House appropriators proposed reductions for the U.S. Air Force’s Hard and Deeply Buried Target Defeat System (HDBTDS) research and development program.
Yet, the DoD reconciliation bill…