{"id":64973,"date":"2023-09-07T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/09\/07\/air-force-pushes-for-quickstart-plan-to-launch-programs-without-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:00:37","slug":"air-force-pushes-for-quickstart-plan-to-launch-programs-without-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/congress\/budget\/2023\/09\/07\/air-force-pushes-for-quickstart-plan-to-launch-programs-without-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force pushes for quickstart plan to launch programs without budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Air Force still hopes lawmakers will approve a proposal allowing armed services to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2023\/04\/19\/air-force-wants-to-launch-programs-without-having-to-wait-for-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">start work on new programs<\/a> before a budget is passed, a move that could ease problems brought about by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2019\/11\/18\/what-is-a-continuing-resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">continuing resolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew Hunter, the Air Force\u2019s assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, said Tuesday that the so-called quickstart legislative proposal would allow the service to progress with initial contract work and early-stage program activities \u2014 even if a budget isn\u2019t yet passed and the military was forced to operate under a continuing resolution, or CR, limiting its spending to prior year levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview at the Pentagon with Defense News, Hunter described complications that CRs present when the Air Force tries to launch new programs. Under a CR, he said, the Air Force can hold informal talks with industry. But arranging contracts and setting up vendor pools is trickier if a formal budget isn\u2019t yet passed, he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The quickstart proposal could change that, he argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGetting to the point where you can actually get on contract and initiate early-stage programmatic activities, that\u2019s what that legislative proposal is really optimized for,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cThat\u2019s one reason why we\u2019re continuing to aggressively pursue that with Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall first described this proposal to reporters in April, noting it would only allow program offices to perform preliminary work, such as early requirements studies, risk reduction and design activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original version of the proposal backed by Kendall would have allowed services to use up to $300 million to start new programs before a budget was passed. It was originally in neither versions of the National Defense Authorization Act proposed to Congress. But Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., brought the proposal up for a floor amendment to the Senate\u2019s NDAA version in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The version that ultimately made it into the Senate NDAA was a slimmed-down approach to the first proposal, allowing to use $100 million for new-start funding across the Defense Department. Hunter said the Air Force will continue talking to lawmakers during the conference process to resolve differences between the two NDAA versions in hopes the proposal makes it into the final bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hunter said the inclusion of the proposal in the Senate NDAA was \u201cwonderful, from an Air Force perspective.\u201d And when asked if $100 million was enough, he replied: \u201cIt\u2019s a good start.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI would hesitate to say it\u2019s not enough until I\u2019ve [proved] that it\u2019s not enough, by executing up to the limit,\u201d Hunter explained. \u201cHaving said that, the $100 million isn\u2019t just for the Air Force, sadly; it\u2019s for all of the services. So we\u2019ll have to see how intense the competition is to use the authority. And if it\u2019s really intense, we\u2019ll have to revisit\u201d the proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hunter noted this proposal could come in handy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2023\/03\/28\/us-air-force-plans-self-flying-f-16s-to-test-drone-wingmen-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">start up Project Venom<\/a>, a proposed $50 million program that would allow the service to upgrade six F-16 fighters with autonomous software and experiment with the aircraft\u2019s self-flying capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the legislative proposal passes, Hunter said, the Air Force could readjust funding to start working on modifying those jets before a budget is officially passed. The money could pay for procuring physical parts for the modified F-16s, he added, as well as design and software work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A proposed experimental operations unit, which would help develop the tactics and procedures to fold autonomous drone wingmen \u2014 also known as collaborative combat aircraft \u2014 into a squadron, would be harder to fund under the quickstart proposal, Hunter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo much of the work there [in the experimental operations unit] is people, Air Force personnel, and organizational,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say there\u2019s not any application to it, but it\u2019s a little more tenuous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When using that authority, he added, the Air Force would have to be cautious not to start something it would be unable to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also said House lawmakers and staffers have expressed concern to the Air Force about the potential effect this proposal would have on the budgetary process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the changes the Senate made to the proposal when including it in the chamber\u2019s NDAA may address concerns in the House, increasing its chances for passage, according to Hunter. He described the other changes to the proposal, besides the lowering of the funding limit, as \u201cclarifications\u201d that didn\u2019t differ greatly from what the Air Force intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s my hope, and my message to the House folks has been, that we think a lot of the concerns that led to this not being in the House version of the NDAA were addressed in the provision that was adopted\u201d by the Senate, Hunter said. \u201cWe think it\u2019s ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the $100 million version of this legislative proposal passes, Hunter declined to say whether the Pentagon is likely to pitch another version next year that would expand it beyond the current limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRight now, my job is to persuade them to adopt the authority and then to show them what it looks like in execution,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cI\u2019m going to stick with that for the 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