Senior Pentagon officials face a number of difficult choices and expensive options as they try to determine in the coming weeks how to replace the EA-6B Prowler support jammer. A Pentagon-chartered analysis of electronic attack alternatives has been completed after more than a year's study and military officials have been presented with a laundry list of options to maintain a support-jamming capability past 2010. Now, the Defense Dept. has to determine how it wants to proceed. Officials familiar with the closely-held assessment note there are many difficult battles ahead because of the future program's significant costs.
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