Congress reigns in Navy’s electronic warfare programs
By: Mike Gruss   1 day ago
House and Senate appropriators are worried about delays and premature funding for two of the Navy’s most high-profile electronic warfare programs.
In a spending bill released Dec. 16, appropriators provided $340 million for the principal electronic warfare system carried by Navy surface ships, formally known as AN/SLQ-32. The Department of Defense had requested about $420 million for that program. Specifically, lawmakers said the block 3 portion of the program that would upgrade the fleet's capability to electronically attack anti-ship missiles was “early to need.â€
Lawmakers had taken a similar position in the annual defense policy bill.
https://www.c4isrnet.com/electronic-warfare/2019/12/18/congress-reigns-in-navys-electronic-warfare-programs/
