Trump FY-17 budget boost nets Air Force increases for handful of research efforts

By Jason Sherman / May 4, 2017 at 3:13 PM
The Air Force netted an additional $351 million in the portion of the fiscal year 2017 omnibus defense spending bill established to fund priorities advanced by the Trump administration in March, nearly half of which would go to classified projects and boost the accounts of a half-dozen unclassified programs. Lawmakers added $14.7 billion to the Defense Department's portion of the FY-17 omnibus spending bill -- funds financed as part of the Overseas Contingency Operations account -- to support projects the...

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