Air Force Modernization Plan Emerges Intact From FY-08 Budget Review

By Jason Sherman / January 18, 2007 at 5:00 AM
The Air Force's entire roster of major weapon system programs and its $135 billion budget request for fiscal year 2008 emerged relatively unscathed from the Office of the Secretary of Defense's review last month, according to previously undisclosed Pentagon budget documents. Tina Jonas, the Pentagon comptroller, on Dec. 12 approved program budget decision 703, a 73-page document directing the Air Force to make a number of changes to its FY-08 spending request, which is being readied for submission to Congress...

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