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FY 2016 NDAA Adds Funding For A-10, Sidesteps Budget Caps

Valerie Insinna

Monday, April 27th, 2015

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FY 2016 NDAA Adds Funding For A-10, Sidesteps Budget Caps

The House Armed Service Committee’s defense authorization bill would give the military much of the funding it sought, including additional aircraft, vehicles and weapons beyond what was requested in the president’s fiscal year 2016 budget, but once again restores funding for the A-10 Warthog airplane the Air Force seeks to retire, according to HASC chairman Mac Thornberry’s (R-Texas) mark of the legislation released April 27.The committee's National Defense Authorization Act proposal shifts $38.3 billion in operations and maintenance funding from…

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