
The Navy’s budgetary appeal to the FY 2020 House’s defense appropriations bill warns cuts to funding for the MQ-25 Stingray and carrier replacement program could delay delivery of both the unmanned tanker and an aircraft carrier by over a year, respectively. The House appropriations bill cut the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Mission Control System (UMCS) by $52 million and the Air Segment product development by $20.6 million because it was “excess to need” as well as $8 million for test and…