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Navy/USMC

Navy Looks To Move Around MQ-25 Funding Due To EMD Delays

Tuesday, July 18th, 2023

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Navy Looks To Move Around MQ-25 Funding Due To EMD Delays

The Boeing MQ-25A T-1 test asset conducts the first refueling between an unmanned aircraft and a manned F/A-18E/F Super Hornet on June 4, 2021. (Photo: Boeing)

The Navy requested Congress let it move hundreds of millions of dollars related to the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned carrier-based tanker aircraft funds for fiscal year 2023 due to delays in delivery of engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) aircraft. As part of a June 30 $4 billion omnibus reprogramming request by the DoD comptroller, the Navy wants to decrease MQ-25 other aircraft procurement funds by $580 million due to these delays as well as obsolescence issues, spending only $168 million of…

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