The Senate Armed Services Committee is seeking to re-energize efforts to develop advanced airlift airship technology and is calling for the defense secretary to establish a strategy for future efforts. Senate authorizers, in the report accompanying their fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill, reaffirm their "ongoing interest in advanced lighter-than-air" airship technology, and encourage the Air Force, Army and U.S. Transportation Command to "become more proactive in developing advanced airship mobility needs and capability requirements that both lead and stimulate...