Goldfein: Air Force to ask for light-attack funding in FY-17 supplemental

By Rachel Cohen / February 24, 2017 at 9:55 AM
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said this week the service will ask Congress to fund its light-attack aircraft experiment, planned for this spring, in the fiscal year 2017 supplemental defense budget request. "That's in this submission, but it's not a lot of money to do an experiment," Goldfein said Feb. 23 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It's actually one of the authorities that came to the service chiefs in the new legislation, so I'm...

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