Experts: USAF's 'Third Offset' priorities could struggle, evolve in Trump era

By Rachel Cohen / February 16, 2017 at 5:24 PM
Defense experts in Washington are mulling what the future of the Obama administration's "Third Offset" investments could look like under President Trump, as the Defense Department begins to shape its near-term budgets and updated national defense strategy. While some in the think-tank community believe Air Force research and development funding will take a back seat to near-term readiness funding, others say the prioritization of operations and maintenance won't be much of a shift from the past eight years. That rang...

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