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Lawmakers blast Air Force moves on cancelled Northrop drone
Source: Reuters
Lawmakers blast Air Force moves on cancelled Northrop drone
WASHINGTON | Thu May 16, 2013 11:18pm EDT
(Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers urged Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to ensure that the Air Force complied with a law requiring the service to buy three high-altitude Global Hawk unmanned planes built by Northrop Grumman Corp that it had tried to cancel.
Representatives Buck McKeon, the Republican who heads the House Armed Services Committee, and Jim Moran, a Democrat from Northrop's home district in Virginia, sent Hagel a strongly worded letter in which they accused the Air Force of ignoring congressional mandates by failing to procure the spy drones.
A copy of the letter, which was dated May 13, was obtained by Reuters late on Thursday.
The Air Force had proposed mothballing the Global Hawk Block 30 program in its fiscal 2013 budget request, arguing that it would be less expensive to keep flying manned U-2 spy planes given pressure to reduce funding.
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WASHINGTON | Thu May 16, 2013 11:18pm EDT
(Reuters) - Two U.S. lawmakers urged Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to ensure that the Air Force complied with a law requiring the service to buy three high-altitude Global Hawk unmanned planes built by Northrop Grumman Corp that it had tried to cancel.
Representatives Buck McKeon, the Republican who heads the House Armed Services Committee, and Jim Moran, a Democrat from Northrop's home district in Virginia, sent Hagel a strongly worded letter in which they accused the Air Force of ignoring congressional mandates by failing to procure the spy drones.
A copy of the letter, which was dated May 13, was obtained by Reuters late on Thursday.
The Air Force had proposed mothballing the Global Hawk Block 30 program in its fiscal 2013 budget request, arguing that it would be less expensive to keep flying manned U-2 spy planes given pressure to reduce funding.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/17/us-northropgrumman-drone-congress-idUSBRE94G03R20130517