
The Pentagon’s shipbuilding accounts, aircraft inventories and research and development (R&D) funds are among the major winners included in the fiscal year 2019 (FY’19) defense appropriations conference report, which lawmakers released Sept. 13.If passed, the joint agreement for H.R. 6157, the Defense-Labor- Health and Human Services minibus bill, would include about $674 billion for the base budget and overseas contingency operations (OCO) funds, about $1.9 billion less than was initially requested. It is a $19 billion increase over the FY’18…