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Last Minute HASC Amendment Keeps Strong RD-180 Waiver Restrictions In Place

Pat Host

Thursday, April 30th, 2015

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Last Minute HASC Amendment Keeps Strong RD-180 Waiver Restrictions In Place

An early morning Wednesday, last-minute amendment from Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) kept strong restrictions on the national security waiver available to the Defense Department to use RD-180s beyond ones already paid for in the 2013 “block buy.”The House Armed Services (HASC) strategic forces subcommittee bill language approved in the subcommittee in April removed the Section 1608 fiscal year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) waiver language requiring that, in order to procure additional RD-180s, DoD certification that space launch services…

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