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CongressHASC Minority Leader Concerned Over Reduced Basic Research Funds in FY ’21 Request
House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Ranking Member Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) wants to make sure that the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2021 request for more research-and-development prototyping funds does not come […]
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Missile DefenseMDA Cuts Pacific Radar Sensor, Starting INDOPACOM Sensor Study
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) stopped funding a new ballistic missile defense radar in the Pacific and instead is studying the larger sensor architecture needed in region, the agency’s director […]
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BudgetNASA Aeronautics Budget Sees 4.5 Percent Boost, Funding Aircraft Electrification Research
NASA might see a 12 percent increase in its budget per the White House’s request for fiscal year 2021, mostly for a push to return humans to the moon by […]
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ArmyArmy’s $13.5 Billion ‘Night Court’ Savings In Budget Request Includes Adjustments To JLTV, AMPV
Army officials on Tuesday detailed the service’s request to cancel 41 programs and reduce or delay another 39 to find $13.5 billion in savings over the next five years, including […]
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Air ForceAir Force Advanced Battle Management System FYDP Projection Jumps from Millions to Billions
Over the course of one year, the Air Force has planned to invest billions more in its Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) effort in the next five years, compared to […]
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BudgetNavy Pushes Back Frigate Schedule To Avoid LCS Issues
The Navy’s FY 2021 budget request pushed back the new guided-missile frigate, FFG(X), schedule to avoid moving too fast as was the case for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), a […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyAir Force Cancels Lockheed Martin-Led Hypersonic Weapon Program
The Air Force has called it quits on one of its main hypersonic weapon research-and-development programs to better concentrate investment on a second prototype program in light of constrained budgets […]
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BudgetNew DoE Secretary Backs Big Budget Increase for Civilian Nuclear Weapons Programs in 2021
The roughly $20 billion budget the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration requested on Monday is “the right number” to reverse a decade of “neglect” in the U.S. nuclear-weapons […]
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ArmyArmy Details $178 Billion FY ’21 Budget Request, Boosts Funds For Modernization Programs
The Army on Monday released its $178 billion budget request for fiscal year 2021, which includes finding another $13.5 billion to realign toward high priority programs and boosting development funds […]
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Air ForceAir Force FY ’21 Request Includes More F-35s, F-15X Fighters, Helicopters
The Air Force is planning to procure more fourth- and fifth-generation fighter jets, along with new combat rescue helicopters and nuclear site protection rotor platforms in its fiscal year 2021 […]