The Pentagon is submitting a fiscal year 2020 budget requesting a $9 billion increase in research, development, test and evaluation dollars for new weapon systems, while procurement funding would decrease by $4.2 billion primarily because of planned cuts to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, according to budget documents released today. The Defense Department modernization budget for FY-20 -- procurement plus RDT&E -- totals $247.3 billion, up $4.7 billion from the FY-19 modernization total. The total procurement account for FY-20...