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Final $824.3 Billion FY ‘24 Defense Spending Bill Supports Six Multi-Year Munitions Deals, Replicator Funding

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Final $824.3 Billion FY ‘24 Defense Spending Bill Supports Six Multi-Year Munitions Deals, Replicator Funding
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III speaks with Senator Patty Murray and Sentaor Susan Collins at the conclusion of testimony at the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on May 16, 2023. (DoD photo by Chad J. McNeeley)

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…

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