
There’s no funding in the fiscal year 2016 budget so far to extend the Navy’s X-47B unmanned aircraft demonstrator program, but Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) doesn’t want to see the two test planes put in a museum just yet.In a May 1 letter, Forbes asked Navy Secretary Ray Mabus for additional information about what the Navy plans to do with the drone, which was the first to operate on an aircraft carrier and recently successfully completed aerial refueling tests. “If I…