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U.S. Space Force Asks Congress to Restore TxDES Funding for Fiscal 2025

U.S. Space Force Asks Congress to Restore TxDES Funding for Fiscal 2025
Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein speaks at the McAleese Defense Programs Conference in Washington, D.C. on March 7 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) said that it did not include more than $42 million in its fiscal 2025 budget request for the missile warning portion of the Space Development Agency's (SDA) Tranche Demonstration and Experimentation System (TxDES) because of the president's budget request (PBR)-"directed reduction of 33 percent for experimentation and demonstration of SDA-developed joint warfighter capability in FY25." The Space Force's $1.15 billion fiscal 2025 "unfunded priorities list" (UPL) includes $786 million for six classified programs--the largest is…

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