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...