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Kendall: Fiscal Responsibility Act Constraints Will Slow U.S. Space Force Programs

Frank Wolfe

Monday, March 11th, 2024

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Kendall: Fiscal Responsibility Act Constraints Will Slow U.S. Space Force Programs

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall discusses reoptimizing for Great Power Competition at the 2024 Warfare Symposium in Aurora, Colo. on Feb. 14 (Department of the Air Force Photo)

The fiscal limits in last year's Fiscal Responsibility Act will slow U.S. Space Force modernization in fiscal 2025, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. "We made a [fiscal 2025] tradeoff in the Air Force between procurement and research and development in order to move forward as fast as we can on modernization, that next generation capability," he told reporters on March 8 in a briefing on the Department of the Air Force's fiscal 2025 budget. "The Space Force didn't have…

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