The Air Force is working toward buying a strike weapon, flown on next-generation fighters and bombers, to pursue "rapidly relocatable" targets in denied combat zones, according to the service's fiscal year 2018 budget request, which was released last week. The new-start "stand-in attack weapon" project requires $3.4 million in FY-18 research and development funding to establish the program office, upgrade facilities and offer other program support, according to Air Force budget documents. "This project provides a strike capability to defeat...
