The Coalition for National Security Research, of which AAU is a member, sent a letter to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Leadership urging them to reach a bipartisan budget agreement to raise the discretionary budget caps.
"Under BCA, the defense base budget cap is slated to decline from its FY 2019 level by $71 billion in FY 2020 and by $56 billion in FY 2021. Reductions of this magnitude would result in substantially fewer resources for the Defense S&T program, which would limit discoveries that ultimately provide the warfighter with the technical capabilities to defeat new and emerging threats."