
A yearlong continuing resolution (CR) would push the Air Force to delay planned maintenance and testing and inhibit the service from moving forward on new programs of record, a top official warned on Tuesday.A CR typically holds funding at the same budgetary levels as the previous fiscal year (FY). For the Defense Department, that would mean a smaller budget in FY 2016 than in 2015, even when taking into account spending limits set by the Budget Control Act of 2011,…