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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysavgu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2018 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:03 a.m. in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Richard Shelby (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Shelby, Collins, Murkowski, Daines, Hoeven, Durbin, Leahy, Tester, Udall, and Schatz. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF THE HON. DR. HEATHER WILSON, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR RICHARD C. SHELBY Senator SHELBY. The subcommittee will come to order. This morning we are pleased to welcome Secretary Wilson and General Goldfein to review the Air Force 2019 budget request. Here the Air Force is requesting $156.3 billion, an increase of about $4.6 billion over amounts appropriated for 2018, and it's an amount consistent with the 2-year budget deal passed earlier this year by us. The Air Force budget request recognizes the challenges posed by long-term competition with China and Russia and builds on the progress of the 2018 budget to restore readiness, increase lethality, and cost effectively in the modernization era. Restoring readiness to support a total force of 500,000 Airmen and over 5,000 aircraft must remain a top priority for this committee. However, invest- ments that maintain our edge on the battlefield are also critically important, tomorrow's weapons, in other words. We must continue to address such areas as hypersonic weapons and artificial intel- ligence that will maintain our technological advantage into the fu- ture. At the same time, we must continue to manage programs cur- rently in production, such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the tanker replacement program. Secretary Wilson and General Goldfein, we appreciate your serv- ice to this country, and we look forward to hearing how your budg- et balances all of these important priorities that we need for na- tional security. [The statement follows:]

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