The House Appropriations Committee says more than $43 million of the Air Force's fiscal year 2018 request for Compass Call modifications should instead be sought in FY-19 because protests lodged with the Government Accountability Office have slowed the search for an EC-X platform. A committee staffer told Inside Defense in a July 6 email the Air Force's request for money to buy and install a third Baseline 3 kit for EC-X is premature, linking the funding cut to...
