
The Trump administration “objects” to a provision in the House version of the fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill that would require the Air Force to replace its aging E-8C JSTARS ground-surveillance planes with new aircraft, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).In a May 22 statement of administration policy (SAP) on the wide-ranging bill, OMB echoed Air Force leaders who have argued that a JSTARS replacement would be shot down in a war with China…