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Defense Watch: 2021 Budget, Laser Experiments, Rocket Lab Launch

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Friday, December 6th, 2019

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Defense Watch: 2021 Budget, Laser Experiments, Rocket Lab Launch

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2021 Budget. The Defense Department continues to anticipate it will receive less funding in the fiscal year 2021 budget than it requested or received in the last two years, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy John Rood told Congress Thursday. “We’re planning for something that will be flat,” Rood told SASC members during a hearing. When asked by members whether that will impede plans to implement the 2018 National Defense Strategy, he answered: “Obviously additional funds make it easier to do…

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