
The House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal year 2020 draft defense appropriations bill cuts Air Force funding for space procurement and research-and-development (R&D) programs compared to what the service requested, despite lawmakers’ continued emphasis on developing new space programs and technologies across the Department of Defense. The draft bill report, released Tuesday, includes $2.3 billion for new Air Force space procurement, about $45 million less than the service requested earlier this year. House appropriators justify the decrease due to underexecution of programs…