The Air Force will be forced to trim nearly $4.1 billion from its fiscal year 2011 budget request if recommendations made by a powerful House defense subcommittee are made law. Members of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee are looking to cut a total of $3.1 billion from the Air Force's procurement and research and development accounts -- $2.3 billion in procurement and $900 million in R&D -- in the upcoming fiscal year, according to a draft version of the panel's...
