For years, the Navy and Congress have been at odds over the service’s future carrier-based drone, called the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS). But lawmakers want to ensure the Pentagon structures UCLASS requirements in a way they approve of, and a proposal unveiled last week in the Senate Armed Service Committee’s markup of the 2016 defense authorization bill was specifically targeted to do just that, its chairman said.The committee authorized $375 million for a competitive prototyping effort that…
