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2017 Defense Bill Heads To Vote: Adds $3.2B, 16k Army Soldiers
« on: November 30, 2016, 11:52:56 am »
 2017 Defense Bill Heads To Vote: Adds $3.2B, 16k Army Soldiers
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on November 29, 2016 at 5:31 PM

Fireworks over the US Capitol Dome in Washington, DC.

CAPITOL HILL: House and Senate conferees have agreed to an almost $619 billion defense budget that stops steep cuts in the US Army, eliminates 110 generals and admirals, makes US Cyber Command independent, and cuts the Pentagon’s most powerful position in two. The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017 — which began last month — is tentatively scheduled for a House vote Friday and a Senate vote the following week, senior staffers told the press this afternoon.

Notably absent from the bill? The conference provisions do not buy any additional F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, AH-64 Apache helicopters, or other major weapons systems over what President Obama’s budget request originally proposed in February. Nor did the conferees decide to disestablish the much-criticized F-35 Joint Program Office, restrict the Navy’s much-delayed Ford-class carrier program, or rewrite the contract for the Air Force’s secretive B-21 bomber, although they did require additional reporting on all three.

http://breakingdefense.com/2016/11/2017-defense-bill-heads-to-vote-adds-3-2b-16k-army-soldiers/
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