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Air Force

Pentagon Budget Officials Wanted $17 Billion More For FY ’17 Budget

Valerie Insinna

Tuesday, February 9th, 2016

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Pentagon Budget Officials Wanted $17 Billion More For FY ’17 Budget

An F-35A, tail number AF-2, fires a burst of rounds down range at the Gun Harmonizing Range at Edwards AFB.

The Pentagon on Tuesday unveiled the $582.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2017, a sum that conforms to the Bipartisan Budget Agreement and includes $523.9 billion in base spending and $58.8 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account that pays for wartime expenses.Although the budget deal reached by the Obama administration and Congress last year provided some relief, Defense Department officials charged with creating the budget said they had been planning for a base budget that was $22…

Budget

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Congress

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Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

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Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

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