DOD to outpace NASA in funding for launches
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A GAO analysis reveals that the Defense Department has its eyes on space.
NASA and DOD space budgets
The Defense Department, shown below in dark blue, will ask more funding for space launches than will NASA (light blue) over the next few years, according to GAO.
(Figures in billions of inflation-adjusted dollars.)
SOURCE: GAO. Read the report.