Sign In
Search
Air Force

Freshman Congresswoman Ready to Add A-10 Funding to Defense Budget

Valerie Insinna
SHARE:
Freshman Congresswoman Ready to Add A-10 Funding to Defense Budget
The A-10 Thunderbolt II. (Photo: Air Force)

Newly-elected Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz) is prepared to offer an amendment that would keep the A-10 Warthog in Air Force fleets for another year, should funding not be present in the defense authorization bill when it is released by the House Armed Services Committee on Monday.A group of lawmakers led by McSally, a former Air Force colonel who piloted the A-10 attack plane and later commanded a Warthog-equipped squadron during the war in Afghanistan, authored a letter asking HASC chairman…

Subscriber-only content. Please log in below.

Not a subscriber or registered user yet?

Please contact us at clientservices@accessintel.com or call us at 888-707-5814 (Monday – Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. and Friday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET.), to start a free trial, get pricing information, order a reprint, or post an article link on your website.

Recommended

Advanced / Transformational Technology

AI Maturity for Fighter Missions Looms As Big Challenge for CCA

Advanced / Transformational Technology

Aventra Defense Raises $18 Million To Support Long-Range Strike System

Navy/USMC

Ursa Major Wins Contracts For Navy Solid Rocket Motor Development

Navy/USMC

Lockheed Martin Nabs $245 Million Mod For Second IRST Block II Order

Trending

Anduril Nabs Potential $1.8 Billion Army Deal To Support ‘Corps-Scale Fielding’ For NGC2
Defense Watch: Possible MUSV Lease, CBO and Golden Dome, X-BAT Sites
Army Picks Initial 30 Finalists For Low-Cost Interceptor Demonstrations
USAF Looks for Long-Range Communications Drones Deployable from AFSOC Fixed Wing Platforms
U.S. Space Force Pins Hopes on Space-Based Radar Systems, Northrop Grumman Building GMTI System

Congress Updates

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]

Missile Defense

Fischer Says Golden Dome Boosters Need To Increase Capitol Hill Support With Information, Warns Against Counting On Reconciliation

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – A Senate Armed Services panel chair today said boosters of the Golden Dome program still have work to do to increase support on Capitol Hill while […]

The Force Multipliers

Force Multipliers

Michael Harrison – SANS Institute

Force Multipliers

Michael DiOrio – Dataminr

Force Multipliers

Arne Brinck – Dark Wolf Solutions

Force Multipliers

Jags Kandasamy – Latent AI

Job Feed

Post a Job // Post a Resume