With 15 days left in the fiscal year, the U.S. Air Force and Space Force have not sent Congress a wish list of waivers to make living without a new appropriations bill easier.

The head of the U.S. Air Force’s mobility fleet needs more data from Boeing on the KC-46 Remote Vision System (RVS) upgrade plan to determine if an interim fix is worth taking the maintenance downtime.

Although the U.S. Air Force proposed to terminate the General Atomics MQ-9 production line in the last budget cycle, the service may opt to employ the Reaper in a new way: as an attritable aircraft that the military can afford to lose in a war with China or Russia.