Lawmakers scolded the Air Force but pared back restrictions on the service's program to move EC-130H Compass Call equipment to a new aircraft in the final version of the fiscal year 2018 defense policy bill , which the House and Senate passed this week. Congress is "unimpressed" with the Air Force's claim it had an urgent and compelling need for L3 Technologies to lead the acquisition and called the plan to recapitalize one aircraft a year "meager." "The conferees expect...