Zachary Fryer-Biggs writes the Pentagon also wants to reduce spending on system development and demonstration by half under its 2015 Future Years Defense Plan in order to concentrate funding on basic research.
DoDâs fiscal 2015 budget proposal seeks $874 million to replace the U.S. Navyâs Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines and $197 million for the Littoral Combat Ship mission modules, according to the report.
The military also plans to spend $214 million on the U.S. Air Forceâs Space Fence program, $113 million on the Armyâs WIN-T network and $145 million on a missile defense radar, the report says.
Fryer-Biggs writes the planned RDT&E spending amount for fiscal 2015 is twice the enacted level for fiscal 2014.