Senate appropriators are proposing a major cut to the Navy's MQ-25 Stingray uncrewed aircraft program , slashing over $450 million from the service's fiscal year 2025 budget request. The decision to fund the program at only $50 million comes after critical obsolescence redesign efforts and a subsequent reprogramming request . Although the Navy’s budget request specified three Boeing-built MQ-25s would be procured, Senate appropriators are now bringing that to zero, saying in their report accompanying the FY-25 spending bill that...
