Air Force consolidates S&T funding accounts to improve flexibility

By Sara Sirota / March 12, 2020 at 12:42 PM
The Air Force's fiscal year 2021 budget proposal reorganizes the service's science and technology accounts -- a "significant reform" that will allow researchers to be more agile moving forward, according to service acquisition chief Will Roper. “We’re wanting to put the amount of accounts that we have in S&T -- we want to reduce them so we have greater flexibility and agility to adapt to successes and also commercial [technology] trends,” Roper told the House Armed Services intelligence and emerging...

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