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 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 emerging demonstration plans."...
