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Yes and no. They can't do something like use money from the B-2 DMS upgrades to fund the RQ-180 development or operations. Back in the 80s the Navy did things like this to fund the A-12 and it got them into a lot of trouble. That would be very illegal without a "reprogramming" action, which requires justification and authorization (and is not secret). Reprogramming actions can sometimes (but not often) be insightful. For example, there might be money shifted out of program X into something it depends on, like money shifted from F-35 RDTE into a defense-wide operational testing account to upgrade a facility to support F-35 testing. Or it can be just shifting money to where it's needed and the donor and recipient have no real relation to each other.They can, however, do things like fund a sensor that both the GlobalHawk and RQ-180 can use under the GlobalHawk program and then fund the integration onto the RQ-180 from the RQ-180 account. Things like that do happen.And they do fund things under broader efforts, like "Advanced Aerospace Engineering" or things like that. Under that effort there may be (public) demos of automated in flight refueling for NGB, but right next to that a classified program that supports some other classified program (like the RQ-170). If you look at the funding for the broad effort you will notice the public programs do no add up to the total, the difference being the classified programs. Some years they list the classified programs, some years they don't, if you can see across enough of the timeline you can piece it all together though.If you pay attention you can see money disappearing into a black hole, and you can often (not always) figure out the nature of the black hole and the composition of the money in it.
Yes and no. They can't do something like use money from the B-2 DMS upgrades to fund the RQ-180 development or operations. Back in the 80s the Navy did things like this to fund the A-12 and it got them into a lot of trouble. That would be very illegal without a "reprogramming" action, which requires justification and authorization (and is not secret). Reprogramming actions can sometimes (but not often) be insightful. For example, there might be money shifted out of program X into something it depends on, like money shifted from F-35 RDTE into a defense-wide operational testing account to upgrade a facility to support F-35 testing. Or it can be just shifting money to where it's needed and the donor and recipient have no real relation to each other.
They can, however, do things like fund a sensor that both the GlobalHawk and RQ-180 can use under the GlobalHawk program and then fund the integration onto the RQ-180 from the RQ-180 account. Things like that do happen.
And they do fund things under broader efforts, like "Advanced Aerospace Engineering" or things like that. Under that effort there may be (public) demos of automated in flight refueling for NGB, but right next to that a classified program that supports some other classified program (like the RQ-170). If you look at the funding for the broad effort you will notice the public programs do no add up to the total, the difference being the classified programs. Some years they list the classified programs, some years they don't, if you can see across enough of the timeline you can piece it all together though.
If you pay attention you can see money disappearing into a black hole, and you can often (not always) figure out the nature of the black hole and the composition of the money in it.
