Air Force five-year budget includes $2 billion for 'Third Offset'

By Courtney Albon / February 26, 2016 at 12:29 PM
ORLANDO, FL -- The Air Force's fiscal year 2017 budget includes approximately $2 billion across the future years defense program that aligns with the Defense Department's "Third Offset," an Air Force official said Friday. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, chief of Air Force Materiel Command, said Feb. 26 at the Air Warfare Symposium here the service's budget includes a mix of new funding -- there's an $821 million plus-up to science and technology funding across the future years defense program -- as...

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