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Air Force Procurement Budget Request Sees Slight Bump Over FY ’10

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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

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By Marina Malenic The Obama administration's $549 billion Defense Department spending request for FY '11 includes $170.8 billion for the Air Force, of which $24.2 billion would be spent on weapons procurement. Congress this year appropriated $22.7 billion for Air Force procurement programs. The air service plans to purchase 149 new aircraft with $15.4 billion of the overall procurement budget. Service officials noted that 97 of those would be manned aircraft, while 52 would be drones. The base budget provides…

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