House wants better tech at the Air Force's space ops center

C4ISRNET: The U.S. House of Representatives issued a rebuke to the Air Force’s long-awaited space object tracking system in the annual defense authorization bill, which passed May 24.

An amendment to the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act restricted all funding to the Air Force’s Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) Mission System (JMS) until the Pentagon can show Congress that the program’s contract embraces “best-in-breed” technology to fill gaps in current space situational capabilities.

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