The House Armed Services Committee released its version of the FY2011 Defense Authorization Bill on May 21. The HASC funded the 12 new EA-18G Growler support jamming aircraft requested by the Navy in FY2011 for $1 billion. The service had planned to buy the final 10 of 88 aircraft in FY2011, but added two more in FY2011 and 24 in FY2012 at the behest of DOD officials to allow the Navy's three land-based expeditionary squadrons to remain in service. The panel fully funded virtually all of the DOD's EW- and SIGINT-related requests. The following are highlights:
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