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Congressional appropriators have provided Pentagon leadership with how they would like fiscal year 2025 defense funds spent under the continuing resolution, to include adding six more F-35s, cutting MQ-25 drone procurement and granting the Army flexibility for counter-UAS spending. With the Pentagon now operating under a full-year stopgap funding measure for the first time, the funding tables provided to the department are more along the lines of recommendations rather than a binding blueprint if Congress had passed final appropriations bills.…
