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Initially, only US$40.8 million was to be disbursed by the government with US$40.8 million additional to be spent by a ULA subsidiary on Vulcan BE-4 development.[36] Although US$536 million was the original USAF contract amount to Aerojet Rocketdyne (AJR) to advance development of the AR1 engine as an alternative for powering the Vulcan rocket,[34] by June 2018, the USAF had renegotiated the agreement with AJR and decreased the Air Force contribution—5/6ths of the total cost—to US$294 million. AJR put no additional private funds into the engine development effort after early 2018.[24]