The Air Force's $110 billion "working" budget for fiscal year 2008 is a $6.2 billion increase from the amount it had sought for such funding in FY-07, with a majority of the money going toward aircraft recapitalization and rising operation and maintenance costs, according to service officials and documents. "We are making the best attempt [so] we can to recapitalize . . . and modernize the force," the service's deputy assistant secretary for budget, Maj. Gen. Frank Faykes, told reporters...
