A $95.3 billion fiscal 2024 supplemental/foreign aid bill passed by the Senate on Feb. 13 has $5.4 billion to increase production of counter UAS, artillery, air defense, and munitions' components, but a bill summary does not contain a break-out of funding levels for each area nor system. A congressional staffer said that, unlike standing appropriations bills, supplementals can suffer from last-minute provision assembly and "a lack of rigor." "Some of them work, and some of them are science experiments, and some of them have been there forever and are not functional," the staffer said of counter UAS. The House is on recess until Feb. 28 when it is to reconvene and take up its supplemental, which may include counter UAS in addressing aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, as well as border control funding.
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