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Bloomberg: Pentagon’s R&D Request Will Be the Biggest Ever, Shanahan Says
* $104 Billion research plan would boost space, hypersonics
* Fiscal 2020 request is $9 billion more than current year
The Pentagon will request a research and development budget of $104 billion, the biggest in the department’s history, boosting spending in space and for hypersonic weapons, according to defense officials.
The record request to be included in President Donald Trump’s proposed fiscal 2020 budget on March 11 is about $9 billion more than Congress appropriated for R&D in the current fiscal year.
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Patrick Shanahan
Photographer: Martin H. Simon/Pool via Bloomberg
“Look at things like” hypersonic weapons that can travel as fast as five times the speed of sound or “what we’re going to go do in space,” Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said in an interview last week with Bloomberg News. “I think you’ll see much bigger dollars in space.”
While Shanahan, a former Boeing Co. executive, declined to discuss the budget specifics, other defense officials confirmed the increase from the $88 billion that had been projected for fiscal 2020 in budget documents last year.
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WNU Editor: I expect no opposition from Congress on this request.
3 comments:
They will give them 60
Yeah! The NatSec state says jump and congress says how high!
America truly is the shining city on the hill. When was the last time the USA won a war?
The USSR was 27 years ago.
Around 1995 Moscow got mauled by little Chechnya.
Around 1999 Moscow went back and suffered fewer armor losses, but infantry losses were still high. Chechnya is still part of Russia, but now it is semi-autonomous. Totally victory?
In some respects Russia has to be in Syria so that there will not be a Chechnya 3.
The US won in Iraq. Just like the French & British denied the Russians victory over the Turks twice, politicians can take victory away from a nation. Factional politicians can take victory away from their own nation.
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