The Defense Department is seeking congressional approval to buy commercial-off-the-shelf components for the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile fuze modernization effort -- an approach that could save about $206 million by leveraging common development between the Air Force and Navy. In a package of fiscal year 2018 legislative proposals released Monday, the Pentagon states that without the authority to procure COTS components for the Air Force and Navy fuze modernization efforts in FY-18, the Air Force program could slip one...
