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SASC Cuts Most Funding For Next-Gen JSTARS, Small Diameter Bomb; Trims Reaper Funding

SASC Cuts Most Funding For Next-Gen JSTARS, Small Diameter Bomb; Trims Reaper Funding

The Senate Armed Services Committee slashed funding for the Air Force’s E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System follow-on program, opting instead to investigate cheaper options. It also took out hundreds of millions of dollars from the Air Force’s Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) and the Army’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical development and counterfire radar program, according to the committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 that just became publicly available on Wednesday. In the bill, the…

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