The Air Force will protect funding for the recapitalization of its Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft regardless of whether full sequestration cuts return in fiscal year 2016, service Chief of Staff Mark Welsh said today. "Our intent would be to recapitalize the JSTARS as quickly as we can," Welsh told Inside the Air Force after a budget hearing at the House Armed Services Committee. The Air Force has requested funding in its FY-15 budget request to begin...
