The U.S. Army is seeking $146.5 billion in funding for fiscal 2016 to buy more rotary-wing aircraft and ground combat vehicles, and to upgrade training and readiness.
The U.S. Army is seeking more rotorcraft – including Black Hawks, Apaches and Chinooks – in its fiscal 2016 budget request, but it is all contingent on Congress avoiding another round of funding cuts through sequestration.
Industry groups praised the exclusion of per-flight user fees for general aviation in the White House budget, but say they will vigorously oppose a call to extend business aircraft depreciation schedules.
Financial and defense analyst reaction to the Obama administration’s fiscal 2016 defense budget request and five-year spending blueprint on Feb. 2 was largely muted, tempered by the reality that Washington is a gridlocked capital and President Barack Obama’s spending-growth proposal represents just the latest step in a marathon that may not end. The reason is because while Congress generally wants to spend what is requested or more, no one can agree how to do so.
Major increases this year include classified research and development under Air Force operational systems development, which would grow 25% over 2015 to reach $12.8 billion – 75% of Air Force operational systems development and almost half of all Air Force R&D.
The 2016 budgets for the U.S. Defense and Energy departments mark the start or expansion of a number of nuclear-deterrence initiatives, but with many of the bills coming due in future years.
YU Lounge at Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport in Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean; Jet Center Curacao at Hato International Airport in Willemstad, Curacao; and Ecuacentair at Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito, Equador have signed with the company’s network.
The demand for charter services continues to grow, and the aircraft is positioned to meet demand from private customers, corporations and tour operators, it said.
The Obama administration’s budget blueprint for the next five fiscal years will try to kick-start the long-awaited defense technology push at the Pentagon.
The fiscal 2016 budget request of about $161 billion represents an increase of about $1.5 billion, or 1%, compared to the previous fiscal year’s request.
The rocket lifted off at 7:31 a.m. EST carrying the Boeing-built GX spacecraft, also known as Inmarsat-5 F2. Spacecraft separation followed 15.5 hr. later at 12:02 a.m. EST.
The procurement and research and development (R&D) plan would increase in the fiscal 2016 budget request by $8 billion compared with levels enacted by Congress in fiscal 2015.
Jiangsu Shangshang Cable Group has “won the contract for China’s second aircraft carrier,” the government of the eastern city of Changzhou has announced.
