The Air Force is asking Congress for $3.5 billion to cover unfunded priorities mostly related to the service's recently announced structural shakeup to better prepare for conflict with a near-peer adversary, according to a document obtained by Inside Defense . The unfunded priorities list , dated March 21, includes $266.3 million to support the first multicombatant command exercise in the Indo-Pacific next year, $1.1 billion to help build new and existing mission beddowns, $1.5 billion for aircraft maintenance and $612.4...
