DOD, contractors await final FY-16 approps bill, outcome of billions in proposed increases

By Jason Sherman / November 29, 2015 at 8:27 PM
The fiscal year 2016 fortunes of select big-ticket weapons programs will be finalized in the next two weeks as House and Senate appropriators hammer out a final version of the U.S. military's FY-16 spending bill -- a package that must reconcile deep differences between the House and Senate over proposed increases to, among other things, aircraft and shipbuilding programs. The two panels have separately recommended a different mix of major programs for significant increases. Programs that Lockheed Martin runs have...

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