By Ann Roosevelt The Suite of Integrated Radio Frequency Countermeasures (SIRFC) Radar Warning Receivers for the MH-60M Black Hawk are No. 1 on the $413 million list of unfunded priorities U.S. Special Operations Command sent to Congress this week. The 31 items on the list are those the command says it needs, but could not accommodate in the $5.7 billion fiscal year 2009 budget request submitted to Congress earlier this month. The command requested $74.8 million for SIRFC procurement for…
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