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Air Force Maintenance, Testing Would Lag Under Yearlong Continuing Resolution

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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