Image showing the design of the General Atomics offering for DARPA’s LongShot program. (General Atomics)
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s Research and Engineering office would like an additional $81 million in funding over its fiscal 2025 request, according to a copy of its Unfunded Priorities List submitted to Congress and obtained by Breaking Defense.
Services and agencies within the Pentagon are required to send unfunded priority lists to the Hill in order to show members how they would spend extra money if Congress were to grant it. Unofficially, the Pentagon often packs these lists with things that were cut during internal budget negotiations, but which the relevant offices never wanted to see left out of the full FY25 request.
R&E’s request is broken down into three programs:
DE Testing and Experimentation: By far the largest part of the request is $65 million for “DE…
