Mark Huber is an aviation industry veteran who has worked in the flight training, aircraft sales, aircraft component, and airport development businesses. He has flight time in more than 50 different and diverse aircraft, including helicopters, aerobatic aircraft, vintage warbirds, jet fighters, business jets and turboprops, and transport-category aircraft. He has jumped out of several of these—on purpose—with a parachute. His defense and aviation journalism has been published in a variety of national and international periodicals.

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The U.S. Defense Department rolled out its proposed $705 billion FY2021 budget this week that contains funding for 247 new aircraft from major programs worth a collective $23.8 billion. The aircraft include 79 Lockheed Martin F-35s, 24 Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, 12 Boeing F-15EX Advanced Eagles, 15 Boeing KC-46A tankers, nine&nbsp;Boeing/Bell V-22 Ospreys, 52 remanufactured Boeing AH-64E Apaches, seven&nbsp;Boeing CH-47 Chinooks, 36 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawks, five&nbsp;Sikorsky VH-92 presidential helicopters, one&nbsp;Boeing P-8A reconnaissance aircraft, and seven&nbsp;Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters.

 


The budget proposes to increase the Army’s spending on future vertical lift by more than 20 percent, to $1.1 billion, including $514 million for the future attack and reconnaissance aircraft (FARA). Notably, the budget also includes $106.6 billion for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&amp;E), an all-time high. Proposed spending in this area includes $3.2 billion for hypersonics;&nbsp;$1.5 billion for microelectronics, including 5G;&nbsp;$1.7 billion for autonomy;&nbsp;and $841 million for artificial intelligence.

 


Deputy defense secretary David Norquist said the budget “invests in bringing the capabilities of tomorrow to life” and places the U.S. on course to “develop a future force that will prevail in each and every domain.”

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