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Air Force

Air Force Could Delay Purchase Of Up To 24 F-35As Due To Sequestration

Tuesday, November 19th, 2013

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The Air Force could delay purchasing up to 24 conventional variants of the F-35 over the fiscal year 2014-2019 timeframe due to sequestration-related budget cuts, acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning said yesterday. Fanning specifically said the service is looking at shifting up to 24 F-35As out of the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), a five-year plan that describes the Defense Department’s base budgetary plan for normal activities like manning, training and equipping warfighters but excludes overseas contingency operations (OCO)…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

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Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]