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Global Hawk Cancellation Slammed By HASC

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

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House lawmakers repeatedly slammed the Air Force’s proposal to cancel a variant of the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft yesterday, suggesting a powerful committee could attempt to tweak the plan. House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-Calif.) kicked off his committee’s annual Air Force posture hearing yesterday by quizzing service leaders about their attempt in the fiscal year 2013 budget to kill the Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned reconnaissance aircraft program. Pentagon officials maintain the variant of the…

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