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HASC Bill Would Make TacSRT a ‘Program of Record’

HASC Bill Would Make TacSRT a ‘Program of Record’
Trond Hermansen, from Norway, comments during the 9th Allied SATCOM Future Architecture Working Group conference on May 5-7 at Space Systems Command in California. The twice annual conference included representatives from the U.S., Australia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Poland and the United Kingdom (U.S. Space Force Photo)

The House Armed Services Committee's (HASC) fiscal 2026 defense bill would require the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to establish a Title 10 requirement for the tactical, surveillance, reconnaissance, and tracking (TacSRT) program and would mandate that the Department of the Air Force fund TacSRT as a "program of record." Until now, TacSRT has been a pilot program using commercial data analytics for the benefit of the combatant commands (COCOMs). The Department of the Air Force did not…

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