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Air Force

House, Senate Negotiated FY ’19 NDAA Cuts JSTARS Replacement Program

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, July 23rd, 2018

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House, Senate Negotiated FY ’19 NDAA Cuts JSTARS Replacement Program

An E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft. Photo: Air Force.

House and Senate lawmakers in the negotiated version of their respective fiscal 2019 defense policy bills have agreed to prohibit the Air Force from retiring its current fleet of ground-surveillance planes until 2028 while authorizing funding to advance the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) update program, according to Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.)Scott, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a Monday statement that the negotiated National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) cuts $623 million in funding from the…

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Army

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