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Kendall: Funds Shortfall Led Department of the Air Force to Scrimp on Counterspace

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, April 30th, 2024

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The Department of the Air Force scrimped on fiscal 2025 plans to advance U.S. counterspace technology to deter China because of constraints in the Budget Control Act, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on April 30. ''Our greatest regret, if you will, in the constraints we had this year was we couldn't move forward more quickly on counterspace capability, in particular," Kendall told a Department of the Air Force fiscal 2025 budget hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's defense (HAC-D)…

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