A prominent defense budget analyst said today the Air Force’s $13 billion cost estimate for a new Space Force is not “conservative” as Secretary Heather Wilson has suggested, and even went as far as to label the service’s guesswork as “malicious compliance” that could stoke opposition on Capitol Hill. “This is not a conservative estimate,” Todd Harrison, defense budget analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told reporters today. “This is the highest estimate I think you could...
