The House Armed Services Committee is nudging the Air Force to invest more in its EQ-4B Battlefield Airborne Communications Node aircraft, a modified version of Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Global Hawk, in the chairman's mark of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill. While the Air Force did not request BACN funding in its FY-19 budget, lawmakers offered $105 million to buy another EQ-4B on top of the service's $23.7 million ask for RQ-4 modifications. Mark-up language indicates combatant commands are...