Air Force Not Concerned About Possible $460 Million Bomber Cut

By Courtney Albon / May 13, 2015 at 2:20 PM
An Air Force nuclear official said this week that the service is not alarmed with the $460 million cut to its next-generation bomber program proposed in the House Armed Services Committee's mark of the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill, calling the proposed reduction a "normal budgetary practice." The Air Force in its FY-15 budget request projected that it would need $1.6 billion for LRSB in FY-16, but when the service unveiled its FY-16 budget, it only asked for $1.2...

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