
Congressional appropriators early Thursday morning unveiled their final $824.3 billion fiscal year 2024 defense appropriations bill, which includes a compromise to fund six of the Pentagon’s multi-year munitions requests and over $200 million for the department’s new Replicator attritable drone initiative. The defense spending legislation arrives as part of a six-bill, $1.2 trillion spending package that lawmakers are set to consider ahead of a partial government shutdown deadline at midnight on Friday. “We said from the very beginning that if…