Defense News:
WASHINGTON — In their version of the 2018 defense policy bill, House lawmakers are putting pressure on the Army, to figure out a path forward to acquire a radar for the service’s future Integrated Air and Missile Defense System by threatening to withhold funds or transfer the responsibility to the Missile Defense Agency if progress isn’t made.
But the White House is opposed to the pressure, objecting to the bill’s provision in its Statement of Administration Policy last month.
The House Armed Services Committee said in the provision that the Army needed to produce an acquisition strategy no later than April 15, 2018, to procure a radar for its IAMD system capable of detecting threats from 360 degrees. The radar in the current system — Raytheon’s Patriot — has blind spots.
