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HASC Defense Authorization Bill Slashes JLENS Funds, Effectively Canceling the Program

Valerie Insinna
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HASC Defense Authorization Bill Slashes JLENS Funds, Effectively Canceling the Program

House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) has eliminated most of the funding for JLENS, a tethered aerostat built for the purpose of detecting cruise missiles and aircraft, in the chairman’s mark of the National Defense Authorization Act, congressional sources told Defense Daily on Friday.The Army in its fiscal 2017 budget request asked for $45.5 million for JLENS. The chairman’s mark of the NDAA would provide $2.5 million, effectively killing the program. Those funds are to be used by the…

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