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Senate Appropriators Recommend Additional $25 Million For Protected Tactical Waveform

Monday, July 6th, 2015

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The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) approved an additional $25 million in fiscal year 2016 for the Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) mission on the week of June 15.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…

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