Congress supports bare minimum on Navy’s F/A-XX, while fully backing Air Force’s F-47

Congress is committing to only a fraction of the funding necessary for the Navy’s F/A-XX program in the latest version of the defense policy bill, while fully backing the development of the Air Force’s F-47 fighter.The compromise version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act released late Sunday evening contains roughly $2.6 billion for the Air Force’s F-47 program, and just $74 million to develop the Navy’s unnamed sixth-generation fighter jet. The numbers appea