Lawmakers to DOD: Consider Army-run acquisition if JSTARS strategy changes

By Rachel Cohen / November 22, 2017 at 1:16 PM
Senate appropriators are pushing the Air Force to recapitalize its legacy E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System with a new aircraft, and suggest the Army be considered to run an alternative JSTARS follow-on acquisition if the Air Force changes its current plan to replace the platform. "The committee encourages the Air Force to only consider follow-on modernization efforts to a fielded JSTARS recapitalization platform," states the report accompanying the Senate Appropriations Committee chairman's mark of the fiscal year 2018...

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