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SASC Follows House Counterparts In Restricting UCLASS Funds For FY ’12

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Thursday, June 30th, 2011

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This week, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee followed suit behind their counterparts in the House, placing restrictions on Navy funding for the service’s carrier-based unmanned aircraft program in their version of the fiscal year 2012 defense policy bill. In a report accompanying the committee’s legislation, panel members recommended a 50 percent restriction on the use of authorized funding for the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) system. That 50 percent restriction is more lenient than…

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