
The White House critiqued the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) mark of the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act to be debated on the House floor this week, in part for a $500 million reduction in funds to develop the Air Force’s future air dominance technologies and for reducing the number of new F-15EX fighter jets to be procured. In a July 9 statement to Congress, the Trump administration decried a number of items included in H.R. 2500, the…