Quick and dirty, here are the basic defense spending decisions made by the House Appropriations Committee as Congress races to adjourn for the November elections. Highlights of the continuing resolution (since a stand-alone appropriations bill wont be passed) include funding for one DDG-1000, $750 million for ISR needs, the JSF second engine program and advance funding for 20 more F-22s.
Shipbuilding: $14.1 billion (same as administrations request). Congress wants to build eight ships one more than the request. Heres the list: one LPD-17 Amphibious Transport Dock; one DDG-1000 Guided Missile Destroyer; one Virginia Class Submarine; two Littoral Combat Ships; two T-AKE cargo ships; and one Intra-Theater Troop Transport Ship.
Planes: Joint Strike Fighter: $6.3 billion, same as the administrations request but Congress slices the money differently, including $2.9 billion for 14 aircraft (two fewer than the request) and $430 million for the second engine program that was not included in the presidents request, for a total of $3.4 billion in RDTandE.
F-22: The House will almost certainly approve $2.9 billion for 20 F-22s, but another $523 million (not requested) is included for advance procurement of anotherl 20 F-22s.
Ground systems: Future Combat Systems: The House approved $3.6 billion, $26 million more than the budget request to speed up the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Unmanned Ground Vehicle programs.
The continuing resolution includes $150 million in advance procurement money for a fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite that the administration did not want.
Finally, the House appropriators included $750 million that the administration did not request for urgent intelligence needs, items identified by the Pentagons ISR Task Force.
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Trying to make sense of the quick and dirty.
F-22s — We were on track to buy 181 or so of them with the last to be completed in the near future. Is this a proposal to buy the last 20, then then order another 20 for a total of 201, or is this a proposal to buy 40 beyond the current plan, for a total of like 221, or something different.
DDG-1000 is the funding for the first one, for the second one, or for a new third one?
Ships in general. Is Congress asking for more work for the same money? Which ship did it add to the administration request?
JSF — 14 aircraft, A, B, or C (or a mix or R&D).
In the mean time, US soldiers get killed by cheap and simple weapons in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Sounds pretty good except for DC pushing the second-engine-job-security ‘package’ down the F-35′s gullet.
More AF F-22s.
More New AF Long Range Strike (LRS).
Retire old AF LRS sooner.
Fewer AF F-35s.
More USN F-35s.
Fewer USN F-18 E/Fs.
More F-18Gs.
Why?
Lower overall cost.
Smaller AF with bigger ‘punch’.
More Survivable NAVAIR
More NET Air-Air AND Air-Ground ‘hardpoints’ available with longer reach.
Must resist squashing Trolls…Must resist squashing Trolls…
nice to see more UXV support!
waiting with bated breath to see how this impacts the next round of SBIR/STTR solicitations…
“In the mean time, US soldiers get killed by cheap and simple weapons in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Posted by: BlameYourself at September 24, 2008 05:58 PM”
And how does that have any bearing on this subject my friend? Would you prefer an enemy equiped with high tech weaponry such as fighter jets and tanks?
Remember for every one of are team they kill we kill 50 to a 100 of the savages…
When I read articles like this,I know we live in the greatest country in the world & I tell my neighbors that there is nothing wrong with our country or economy. So go out & spend,get some more credit cards,put another mortgage out on your homes. Russia & China need to tremble in fear of our greatness & our dollar,which I’d take over a Euro any day.
I’m just so afraid of terrorists who hide in caves without indoor plumbing or electricity,& who communicate with each other with carrier pigeons,messages in a bottle,& tin cans connected to each other with string.When I realize that they look like you & me(you know,blond hair & blue eyes),my heart just fails me for fear.
But I know that the cold war’s over & China needs us to buy their contaminated & defective products to kill our pets,children,& other members of the family(but I got a good deal at Walmart).Without us,China would still be a poor nation,but because of us(& Walmart),China is rich.Yes,we are the sole superpower & everyone else bows down before us.We’re the greatest.
Rise up Goyim rise up,rise up against our Jewish Masters & throw off their chains of bondage.They can kiss my Amalekite ass.
hah haa hah Roy you are funny. And crazy – get some help.
ohwilleke,
No, we are on track to buy AT LEAST 187 F-22s. The 20 funded here are the last 20 of the multi-year 60 aircraft agreement to fund the F-22 though the end of the current administration (FY09 budget) bringing the total to 183. An additional 4 were funded in the last war supplemental appropriations bill (“to replace wartime losses”) for a total of 187.
Then there is the other ~$500 million but the House & the Senate can’t seem to agree on what to use it for. One says for advanced procurement of additional F-22s & the other says for advanced procurement OR shutting down the production line.
O,this is a map to our present economic problem!
It’s defense that has produced it!Un-needed weapons,gadgets and research….If you look at units,the airdales and SOF guys are guilty…
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