Munitions procurement, largely funded through the overseas contingency operations account to continue the fight against insurgent groups in the Middle East, would soar if the Air Force's fiscal year 2018 budget request is approved. The service plans to max out its purchases of key weapons used against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, particularly Boeing's Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kits and Small Diameter Bomb I and Lockheed Martin's Hellfire missiles, after expending more than 70 percent of the...
