The House Appropriations Committee recommends adding $20 million to Army accounts to help the land force solve the problems of helicopters coping with degraded visual environment such as heavy dust or brownouts that cause fatal accidents. The draft report on the House version of the FY '15 Defense Appropriations Bill recommends an additional $20 million to support the Army’s operational testing of counter degraded visual environment equipment. Flight operations in a degraded visual environment have been blamed for the loss…
