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Senate-Passed Supplemental Has $5.4 Billion for Counter Drone, Artillery, Air Defense, Munition Parts

Senate-Passed Supplemental Has $5.4 Billion for Counter Drone, Artillery, Air Defense, Munition Parts
Pictured is Rafael's Drone Dome counter UAS (Photo: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. Photo)

A $95.3 billion fiscal 2024 supplemental/foreign aid bill passed by the Senate on Feb. 13 has $5.4 billion to increase production of counter UAS, artillery, air defense, and munitions' components, but a bill summary does not contain a break-out of funding levels for each area nor system. A congressional staffer said that, unlike standing appropriations bills, supplementals can suffer from last-minute provision assembly and "a lack of rigor." "Some of them work, and some of them are science experiments, and…

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