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House Defense Authorization Bill Cuts USAF NGAD By $300 Million for ‘Program Delay’

House Defense Authorization Bill Cuts USAF NGAD By $300 Million for ‘Program Delay’
The first two Formal Training Unit F-22 Raptors land at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. on Mar. 29 last year, what the base said was a culmination of four years of preparation for another 30 F-22s and the establishment of the FTU (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The House's fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill, H.R. 8070, contains $3 billion for U.S. Air Force Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD)--a $300 million decrease due to an unspecified "program delay." The Air Force’s fiscal 2025 budget boosted funding for NGAD by $980 million over last year’s request (Defense Daily, March 12). The fiscal 2025 service ask is $2.7 billion in research and development for the NGAD sixth generation manned fighter and $557 million for Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA), the uncrewed…

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