House bill sets stage for antimissile blimp to be pumped up elsewhere

By Sebastian Sprenger / May 2, 2016 at 2:10 PM
The House Armed Services Committee last week passed a defense policy bill calling on U.S. Northern Command to think about where next to deploy the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor after a mishap near Baltimore last year. Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) authored an amendment as a part of an en-bloc package, approved by the committee on a bipartisan basis during its marathon mark-up on April 27 and the early hours of April 28. The measure essentially...

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