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NDAA Conference Bill Authorizes $250 Million for Project Maven

NDAA Conference Bill Authorizes $250 Million for Project Maven
The U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle is one of the drones providing imagery for Project Maven. The 2013 photo is of personnel from E Company of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR)--a company that became the fifth Gray Eagle company in the Army, and the first in special operations that year (U.S. Army Photo)

While the House recommended cutting $50 million from the DoD's Project Maven in fiscal 2021, House and Senate conferees on the fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 6395, agreed to the Senate's recommendation to fund the Pentagon's $250 million request for the program--renamed as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Teams Software Pilot Program. Congress funded Project Maven at $221 million in fiscal 2020. The future years defense program (FYDP) blueprint calls for outyear funding of $252 million in fiscal…

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