The Senate Armed Services Committee’s fiscal year 2021 defense policy bill largely rejects the Air Force's divest-to-invest budget strategy, calling on the service to maintain certain legacy fleets it had wanted to retire and sustain a minimum wartime aircraft capacity level for each of its mission sets. The service's FY-21 budget request would have accelerated the retirement plans for a number of aircraft, including the KC-135, KC-10 and the A-10 and ended production of the MQ-9 -- all as part...
