Defense Department officials are asking Congress to let the Air Force shift more than $536 million of its base-budget funds to higher priorities in fiscal year 2018, largely for research and development efforts, according to an omnibus reprogramming request signed by the Pentagon comptroller July 11. The request, obtained this week by Inside Defense , would also raise FY-17 base-budget funding by $271.5 million and FY-16 general funds by $130.1 million. In return, $820.4 million would come out of various...
