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NSSA Urges Significant Boost to Fiscal 2025 Funding for Space Force

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, May 23rd, 2024

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NSSA Urges Significant Boost to Fiscal 2025 Funding for Space Force

Maj. Carl Poole, Joint Commercial Operations (JCO) cell site lead, briefs Kevin Leiser, a member of the German Parliament, during his visit to the JCO in Colorado Springs on March 27 (U.S. Space Force Photo)

The National Security Space Association (NSSA) is urging a significant boost to the U.S. Space Force fiscal 2025 budget request of $29.4 billion--a $600 million decrease from last year's request. Last month, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that 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 (Defense Daily, Apr. 30). ”Our greatest regret, if you will, in the constraints we…

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