Lawmakers tell Air Force to accelerate Compass Call cross-deck, warning of 'mission failure'

By Rachel Cohen / April 25, 2018 at 4:49 PM
The Air Force's Compass Call recapitalization program isn't moving fast enough for House lawmakers, who floated language this week urging the service to speed up the move from legacy EC-130Hs to the new EC-37B. In the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee's mark of the fiscal year 2019 defense policy bill , released April 25, lawmakers said buying one EC-37B each year for a decade is "not the most efficient way to move the capability to the field...

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