
The House Appropriations Committee’s proposed fiscal year 2020 budget would fully fund development of the Army’s top modernization priority, long-range precision fires, and increase spending required to upgrade Stryker vehicles with new weapon systems. House Democrats released details of their $690.2 billion defense spending bill on Tuesday, which falls $8 billion below the president’s request and $96.2 billion less than suggested for Overseas Contingency Operations funding, while meeting the Army’s requested levels for increased research and development. The committee’s proposed…