{"id":67658,"date":"2024-09-06T20:08:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/09\/06\/us-armys-next-budget-invests-heavily-in-drones-and-electronic-warfare\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:09:09","slug":"us-armys-next-budget-invests-heavily-in-drones-and-electronic-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/smr\/defense-news-conference\/2024\/09\/06\/us-armys-next-budget-invests-heavily-in-drones-and-electronic-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army\u2019s next budget invests heavily in drones and electronic warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Army is planning to ask for more flexible funding for unmanned aircraft systems, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/07\/25\/dod-event-challenges-industry-to-down-largest-drone-swarms-to-date\/\" target=\"_blank\">capabilities to counter them <\/a>and electronic warfare tools in its next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2024\/03\/11\/us-army-faces-flat-fy25-budget-as-personnel-costs-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\">budget<\/a> as it takes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2023\/10\/09\/change-of-plans-us-army-embraces-lessons-learned-from-war-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">lessons learned from Ukraine\u2019s fight against Russia\u2019s invasion,<\/a> according to Christine Wormuth, the service\u2019s secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think some of the areas that [Gen. 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They have a lot of scar tissue around [overseas contingency operations], and how the department has used that over the years,\u201d Wormuth said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even so, \u201cthere is such a deep realization that we have got to change more quickly and that technology is changing rapidly right now that we do need to have more agile mechanisms,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overseas contingency operations, or OCO, funding, used during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to pay for operations abroad, was a separate account with billions outside of the Pentagon\u2019s base budget. It was often used to get extra funding for a variety of things rather than commit to paying for it within regular funding. Congress eliminated OCO funding beginning in FY22. 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