Senate and House authorizers now jointly endorse the Air Force's plan to pursue an Advanced Battle Management System instead of recapitalizing the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, according to the conference version of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill. Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin are competing for the 17-aircraft, $6.9 billion engineering and manufacturing development contract that was slated for award next month. The conference bill language drops a requirement to award the EMD contract and...
