House and Senate defense authorization negotiators are calling on the Government Accountability Office to look into the Patriot missile defense system's maintenance and recapitalization plans. "The conferees agree on the vital importance of the expeditious fielding of a lower-tier air and missile defense capability that meets the needs of our warfighters and seamlessly integrates with the nation's other deployed, or planned to be deployed, air and missile defense capabilities," according to the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying the fiscal year 2017...
