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Senate Appropriators Recommend Additional $25 Million For Protected Tactical Waveform

Tuesday, June 30th, 2015

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The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) the week of June 15 approved an additional $25 million in fiscal year 2016 for the Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) mission.The committee, in its report accompanying the bill, said it is concerned that the PTW mission management system and ground station hub electronics and software are not being co-developed, which the committee believes could lead to a multi-year delay in the fielding of the system and the potential…

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