BUDGET CUTS AIRCRAFT PURCHASES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200980169-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 169
• Publication Date: January 28, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY
28 January 1980
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Air Force, Navy tactical procurement reduced or slowed;
Navy's allocation insufficient to cover normal attrition
Washington-Fiscal 1981 Defense Dept.
budget request that Congress will begin
examining this week reduces or slows
procurement of U. S. tactical aircraft for
both the Navy and Air Force.
Because of the pressure put on the!
Carter Administration by Congress to
increase the Defense Dept. budget in!
Fiscal 1981 by 5% in exchange for possible
Senate ratification of the SALT 2 treaty,
the new budget reflects increases in the
area of strategic weapons, especially fund=
ing for continued full-scale development of!
the MX advanced ICBM.
It also reflects big increases in develop-
ment of USAF satellite systems to aid in
U. S. verification of Soviet strategic weap-
ons, anoter concern articulated in the
SALT ratification process.
Between $1 billion and $2 billion will be
earmarked in Fiscal 1981 for the develop-
ment of new reconnaissance/surveillance
spacecraft and U. S. antisatellite capabili-
ty. The funding or these programs-
euphemistically referred to as "national
technical means"-is hidden in a variety
of USAF budget line items covered in
technology programs. Optical and elec-
tronic intelligence systems will be included
in new space-based systems, but emphasis
is being placed on putting into orbit a
high-resolution radar sensor (Aw&ST
June 4, 1979, p. 11), a technology the
U.S. has-developed.
STAT
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