By: Stephen Losey   1 day ago
Six key budget priorities for the Air Force 2019 president's budget request designed to accelerate readiness and increase lethality to confront the re-emergence of great power competition.
The Air Force’s proposed budget for fiscal 2019 calls for increasing the number of F-35As, KC-46 tankers, MQ-9 Reapers, and rebuilding its stockpile of precision-guided munitions such as the Hellfire missile and Joint Directed Attack Munition.
The 2019 request calls for $156.3 billion for the Air Force in controlled budget authority, a $9.8 billion increase from fiscal 2018. That excludes $37.9 billion in pass-through funding.
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