Twenty-Four Hours: Three DoD Programs Dead Or Wounded -- Aol DefenseWashington: If you want proof that budgets are getting tighter and the Pentagon gets the message, just look at the last two days.
One system is dead and two are badly wounded, potentially totaling cuts of more than $22 billion.
The Army made it sort of official yesterday that the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) will vanish and the service instead will rely on what was originally an Air Force asset. The House Appropriations Committee had already moved to cut EMARSS' $524 million funding from budget early this summer. The Air Force system, the MC-12 Liberty, is a modified two-engine Hawker Beechcraft KingAir that carries a largely classified suite of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors. The system was rushed into production to improve ISR capabilities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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