The House Appropriations Committee wants to increase funding for the Army's Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system procurement by $49 million, according to its fiscal year 2015 defense spending bill. The committee offered no explanation for why it wants to increase the program's funding in both its report on the bill and in the bill itself, but House authorizers included an identical increase in their version of the FY-15 policy bill and noted that the plus-up was needed for "extended range...
