The Air Force is struggling to put together an early draft of its fiscal year 2013 budget because Congress' inability to pass an FY-11 defense appropriations is creating a logjam in the service's planning, two top Air Force officials said this week. Congress has kept the federal government operating since the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1 through a series of short continuing resolutions that limit spending at FY-10 levels. Maj. Gen. Alfred Flowers, Air Force deputy...
