The House Appropriations Committee seeks to provide $500 million to an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance fund to help the combatant commands enhance their ISR needs. The committee's fiscal year 2017 defense spending bill would provide the same amount to this fund as was enacted last year. The lawmakers note that they have "repeatedly heard from combatant commanders of their need for greater capacity and capability in ISR, and commends the secretary of defense and the service leaders for aggressively working...
