More On 3DELRR

Marine Corps Systems Command is acknowledging this morning the service recently dropped long-term plans to fund further technical and programmatic staff support for the Air Force's Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) program, a long-range, ground-based system designed to counter enemy aircraft and missiles in all types of weather and terrain.

Today's edition of Inside the Pentagon breaks news about the Marine Corps' fiscal year 2014 program objective memorandum proposal to cut the relatively few funds the service had planned to devote to the program in the coming years, making FY-13 the last year of Marine Corps technical and programmatic staff support for 3DELRR.

"Yes, there was a recent decision made to have the technical and programmatic staff support end in FY-13 rather than continuing it in FY-14 and beyond," command spokeswoman Lt. Nicole Fiedler said this morning.

View today's ITP story.