Congress moving to reinstate Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii funding in FY-21

By Jason Sherman / July 14, 2020 at 12:29 PM
In rebuke of Pentagon plans to defund the Homeland Defense Radar-Hawaii project, three congressional committees have reinstated funding in fiscal year 2021 for the ground-based sensor in recent weeks -- a move that comes as an internal Defense Department report aims to recommend what to do with the program in the FY-22 budget proposal. The Senate Armed Services Committee's mark of the FY-21 defense policy bill notes a statutory requirement in the FY-18 National Defense Authorization Act for DOD to...

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