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HASC FY ’21 Tacair Mark Scrutinizes Air Force Proposed ISR Aircraft Retirements, Demands Answers on ABMS

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, June 22nd, 2020

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HASC FY ’21 Tacair Mark Scrutinizes Air Force Proposed ISR Aircraft Retirements, Demands Answers on ABMS

The Global Hawk is one of the Pentagon highest profile unmanned system. (Photo: Northrop Grumman)

The House Armed Services Committee’s tactical air and land subcommittee wants answers on the Air Force’s plans to retire a number of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platforms in the fiscal year 2021 defense authorization act. The subcommittee’s mark of the FY ’21 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requests a modernized plan for airborne ISR, and asks that Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett provide a strategy “to ensure alignment between requirements, future Air Force budget submissions, and authorization of appropriations,”…

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