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The Air Force’s light attack aircraft experiment may have ended with only a handful of platforms on contract, but off-the-shelf providers have a second chance to pitch their systems to Special Operations Command (SOCOM). The Defense Department’s fiscal year 2021 budget proposal included $106 million for SOCOM’s armed overwatch program, to provide the component command with armed reconnaissance, strike coordination and reconnaissance, and airborne forward air control in the counter-violent extremism fight, per budget documents. The program will be a…
