Defense News in Brief: Budget request directs record $338.8 billion to Air Force and Space Force to meet ‘challenges of today and tomorrow’

Source: United States Spaceforce

The Department of the Air Force unveiled a $338.8 billion budget proposal, a significant boost in funding designed to sharpen readiness, continue modernizing the fleet and underwrite deterrence while ensuring that any threat to national security can be met and, if necessary, defeated.