Allvin: Yearly CRs contribute to a ‘death by 1,000 cuts’ to Air Force programs

By Vanessa Montalbano / October 31, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Year after year, long-term continuing resolutions have strangled the defense budgetary process, which Air Force officials say is exhausting time that could have been spent on advancing capabilities and blurring the service’s vision about what it might need to maintain superiority over the nation’s adversaries. It’s a “death by 1,000 cuts,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin said today. “If a CR happens for a month, it's a distraction and it hinders things a little bit. If it...

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