House appropriators reject DOD gambit to shift HBTSS to SDA

By Jason Sherman / July 9, 2020 at 4:12 PM
A third congressional defense oversight committee is objecting to the Pentagon's fiscal year 2021 proposal to put the Space Development Agency in charge of the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor, a development that could keep the Missile Defense Agency running the project. The House Appropriations defense subcommittee, in its mark of the FY-21 military spending bill, noted the panel supports the HBTSS program, backing the project in MDA's FY-21 budget with $108 million. "However, the Committee does not support...

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