
The congressional defense committees want the Air Force to accelerate recapitalization of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS).All four committees weigh in on JSTARS in their respective bill reports. The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee (SAC-D) directs the service to pick up the pace with its acquisition schedule. It directs the Air Force to spend $103 million of its budget request for radar risk reduction only on the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract award or to support the…