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OMB Blasts House Proposal To Replace Air Force’s JSTARS Planes With New Aircraft

OMB Blasts House Proposal To Replace Air Force’s JSTARS Planes With New Aircraft
An E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft. Photo: Air Force.

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…

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