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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Committee shifts NLOS R&D funding to Navy


Anticipating and encouraging the Navy’s takeover of the Non-Line of Sight Launch System program, the House Armed Services air and land forces subcommittee transfers $75 million in research and development funding for the program from the Army to the Navy in its markup of the defense authorization bill for 2011, according to congressional documents.

Citing the Army’s decision to cancel NLOS-LS, the subcommittee cuts the $350.6 million the Army requested for procurement of NLOS-LS in 2011 and the $81.2 million in research and development funds.

According to a congressional source, the House Armed Services seapower and expeditionary forces subcommittee’s markup will also include the additional $75 million for the Navy to complete NLOS-LS development.

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