A provision in the conferenced fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill bans the Air Force from spending money on new launch vehicles in favor of a new rocket engine in its rocket propulsion system program.“We have an engine problem,” a congressional source told Defense Daily. “We have a Russian engine we want to get rid of, let’s build a U.S. engine and try to leverage this existing infrastructure and launch vehicles.”Section 1606 says funds authorized in the FY ’15 National…
