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 released early this month may mitigate that, as the bill has $250 million for "expansion and acceleration of penetrating munitions production." The service asked for $154 million in fiscal 2025 for HDBTDS. Senate appropriators advise cutting that by $77 million due…
