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House Appropriators Insist on MYP Cost Savings, Zero EOQ Funding

House Appropriators Insist on MYP Cost Savings, Zero EOQ Funding
A maintenance support contractor checks the AIM-120D3 AMRAAM attached to an F-15E Strike Eagle as it prepares for a live-fire mission at Eglin AFB, Fla. on June 30th last year (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Since fiscal 2018, Congress has added $1.6 billion to the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding and conversion accounts for warship line items, including the Columbia-class attack submarines, to ramp up production through shipyard upgrades and workforce additions. That approach may be the one taken for munitions, if congressional appropriators do not allow multi-year procurements in fiscal 2024 for munitions or significantly cut such requests, such as those for the AGM-158B U.S. Air Force Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER), AGM-158C Long Range…

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