The Air Force requested $8 million to develop its sixth-generation fighter, while asking for hundreds of millions more to advance the technologies it anticipates the aircraft will need.

The $8 million is in the Air Force’s “Next Generation Air Dominance” request in its 2016 research, development, testing and evaluation budget request. But the lion’s share of the plane’s technology development funding “is scattered throughout” other accounts, said Air Force Maj. Gen. James Martin, Air Force deputy assistant secretary for budget.

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