FY-15 Omnibus Establishes New Budget Line For Next-Gen Navy Fighter

摘要

Lawmakers have established a new budget line in the Pentagon's fiscal year 2015 budget for a next-generation Navy fighter, providing $4.7 million in seed money in anticipation that the service will soon begin a program to develop a replacement for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and F-18G Growler sometime in the 2030s. House and Senate appropriators crafting the portion of the FY-15 omnibus spending bill that would fund the Pentagon created the new "F/A-XX (Next-Generation Fighter)" account but offered no comment about the action in the explanatory statement accompanying the spending bill. Lawmakers funded the new account by cutting the Navy's $8.2 million request in its FY-15 research and development spending request for studies and analysis support to $3.5 million.