House Armed Services Committee denies funding for Space Development Agency
by Sandra Erwin — July 15, 2019
The committee cited concerns about the "turmoil surrounding the Space Development Agency."
WASHINGTON — The chairman and ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee have denied a Pentagon request to allocate $15 million to the Space Development Agency in fiscal year 2019. They made that decision based on concerns about a leadership upheaval at the four-month-old agency and confusion about what it is supposed to do.
“The committee denies the proposed $15 million increase to SDA Space Technology Development and Prototyping in its entirety,†Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) wrote in a July 3 letter to Pentagon Comptroller David Norquist. The HASC completed its review of DoD reprogramming requests for fiscal year 2019 that totaled approximately $518 million over a number of fiscal years.
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