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Air Force

Air Force Maintenance, Testing Would Lag Under Yearlong Continuing Resolution

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, September 16th, 2015

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Air Force Maintenance, Testing Would Lag Under Yearlong Continuing Resolution

Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski serves as Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Photo: Air Force.

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,…

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