The Air Force is divulging previously unknown details about its fiscal year 2013 budget battle, which include concerns over how the service can best grapple with a funding shortfall of $98 million while implementing previously planned retirements and the remissioning of several unmanned aircraft units. On March 28, following the passage of an appropriations bill for FY-13, the Air Force publicly released its plan to implement force-structure changes mandated in the fiscal year 2013 Defense Authorization Act. The 12-page plan...
