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Lawmakers Expect a Stopgap Spending Measure to Avoid an October Shutdown
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Despite a budget deal signed into law by President Trump this summer, agencies probably won’t receive new appropriations by the start of the 2020 fiscal year. With current funding set to lapse on Oct. 1, lawmakers appear resigned to pass a continuing resolution to give themselves more time to iron out the details of line-by-line appropriations bills.

The two-year
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hammered out primarily between House Democrats and the White House in late July set top-line spending levels, but Congress still must approve a package of 12 funding measures—or pass a CR—to avoid another government shutdown before current appropriations expire.

The House has passed most of the required annual spending bills for fiscal 2020, but lawmakers still must reconcile them with the Senate, which has yet to approve any appropriations bills for the upcoming fiscal year. The upper chamber delayed work on the spending bills until top-line funding levels were established and the deal was signed by Trump. The Senate Appropriations Committee is set to begin considering the legislation upon returning from recess next month.

Mariel Saez, a spokeswoman for House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said the tight timeframe—lawmakers will have just three weeks upon returning from their summer break to keep agencies funded—has opened the door to a stopgap measure.

“Mr. Hoyer’s preference is to fund the government in September, but the Senate, for the first time in decades, hasn’t marked up a single appropriations bill in subcommittee,” Saez said. “While the House has acted and wants to go to conference with the Senate on appropriations bills as soon as possible, there is a possibility that we will need a short-term CR to provide time for the Senate to do its work.”

A second House Democratic aide was more resigned to the need for a continuing resolution.

“Given how far behind the Senate is in processing appropriations bills, a CR will be necessary to avert a government shutdown,” the aide said. “A CR for all of government through late November or early December will provide a measure of certainty and allow Congress to complete its work.”

Included in the House-backed bills is a
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for federal employees, which would mark the largest increase in a decade. President Trump has proposed freezing civil servants’ pay next year. The House will also have to negotiate over their proposals to
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and block several key Trump administration initiatives.

Saez said Democrats want to start that process immediately.

“Mr. Hoyer continues to urge the Senate to mark up and pass their bills as quickly as possible,” she said, “so that we can go to conference and pass legislation to fund the government and prevent a shutdown.”
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May 14, 2019
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Navy’s Next Tomahawk Missile: Block 5
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Raytheon gets $349m to complete first phase of anti-ship Tomahawk development
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The US Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Raytheon a $349 million contract to complete the first phase of work on the Maritime Strike Tomahawk program.

The project is being undertaken to allow the US Navy to field an anti-ship variant of the Block IV Tactical Tomahawk.

The project started in 2016 with the navy announcing it would equip over 200 Tomahawks with the ability to engage surface targets at ranges of 1000 nautical miles.

According to a Pentagon contract announcement, Raytheon is expected to complete phase 1 design and integration efforts as well as test and evaluation by February 2023.

Part of the work will include integrating a new multi-mode seeker into the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile, enabling the weapon to engage moving maritime targets. Recertification on the first Tomahawk Block IVs is set to begin in 2019.

The Navy is conducting the new seeker development as a Rapid Deployment Capability program to meet urgent fleet requirements. The upgraded missile is expected to achieve an initial operational capability in 2021 after live-fire tests before being introduced to the fleet.

The introduction of MST to the fleet would equip US Navy submarines with an anti-surface capability for the first time since the Harpoon anti-ship missile was retired in the 1990s.

The office of Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) assessed in 2016 that the Maritime Strike Tomahawk would need to perform 36 test flights for an adequate assessment of the capability.
 

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