A bill that would enlist an independent research group to study the impact of "pass-through" funding to Department of the Air Force and other services' programs is before the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), but is unlikely to be considered this year. Introduced in April by Reps. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Kai Kahele (D-Hawaii), the Defense Budget Transparency Act of 2022, H.R. 7574, would require DoD to submit by Feb. 25 next year "an analysis of the positive and negative…
