Senate appropriators have rejected the Pentagon's gambit to give the Space Development Agency funding control of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor project in a recommendation that appears set to end a bureaucratic turf skirmish and consolidate the Missile Defense Agency's role as the lead entity for the new orbiting technology project. The Senate Appropriations Committee, in its mark of the fiscal year 2021 defense spending bill, rejected the Pentagon's proposal to shift funding for HBTSS -- a project...
