DOD wants to cut Joint Light Tactical Vehicle funds to send JLENS aloft

By Sebastian Sprenger / March 7, 2016 at 5:37 PM
Defense Department Comptroller Michael McCord has asked Congress to allow a reprogramming of funds from the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program to finance the resumption of a controversial exercise involving a missile-defense blimp watching over the Washington region. Of the $27.2 million needed for the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor, $11.6 million would come from the Army-Marine Corps vehicle project, with money becoming available as the result of a program delay while losing bidder Lockheed Martin...

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