At a DAF briefing on Monday, Kristyn Jones, acting Under Secretary of the Air Force, and Maj. Gen. Mike Greiner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Budget, laid out some of the details. Jones said the Space Force request includes $4.7 billion for a proliferated multi-orbit m...
Source: Department of the Air ForceFY2024 Budget Overview. The RDT&E request is $2.6 billion more than FY2023. Greiner said it “pivots toward resilient architectures and embodies an integrated deterrence approach establishing the Space Force’s ability to operate in a highly contested environm...
The Space Force did not request an increase in funding for fiscal year 2025 and instead reduced its budget by 2%, even as Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said he thinks the service needs to move faster.The Space Force topline for FY-25 is $29.4 billion ~ down from the $30 billion ...
The Space Force isrequesting $248 millionin fiscal year 2025 for the assured communications PTS-G would provide, according to justification documents submitted with the budget request. It is intended to “bridge the gap” between the focused PTS-Resilient capabilities and the broad but less assured...
Chief of Space Operations Gen Chance Saltzman, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen David Allvin listen to opening remarks during a House Armed Services Committee hearing for the Department of the Air Force fiscal year 2025 budget request. (Credi...
The Air Force’s 2023budget requestof $169 billion—up $13.2 billion from from the 2022 enacted budget—was about transformational change. And Congress approved some of that change: after years of back-and-forth, lawmakers finally signed off on retiring A-10 Warthogs, though they blocked retir...
The Pentagon’s need to build and protect orbital capability hasboostedthe Space Force’s budget in each of its four years—but that will stop in fiscal 2025, for which the service is requesting $29.4 billion, down $0.6 billion from last year. ...
NASA’s fiscal year 2025 budget request released last month proposed delays and cutbacks for a number of science missions, including the long-running Chandra and Hubble space telescopes. Jeff Foust reports on how astronomers are worried that the proposed cuts to Chandra in particular could threaten...
NASA's FY2025 budget request doesn't suggest the Chandra X-ray observatory will survive beyond the year 2029. Here's why that matters for astronomy.
But the policy memo also states that a separate "Department of the Space Force" will need to be created sometime in the future. The Pentagon is wrapping up a legislative proposal and budget request for fiscal year 2020 that it will submit to the White House for approval. The proposal recom...