Asks for $1.6 billion to proceed with plan
The Department of Defense is asking for $14.1 billion to fund space operations in the fiscal 2020 budget, and the Air Force is behind the bulk of the requests.
The $14.1 billion would allocate funding to several national security programs, from satellites to missile warning systems. Of the total, about $1.6 billion will fund improvements to space-based missile warning capabilities, a missing link in America’s layered missile defense system.
“We have to defend what we have in space because it’s going to be there for a while and we all depend on it,” U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein told members of the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee on Monday.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/13/pentagon-wants-14point1-billion-to-help-air-force-develop-space-warriors.html
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