The U.S. House Armed Services Committee has fired a shot across the Pentagon's bow concerning the latter's plan for providing and maintaining satellite-based weather coverage to support military operations. In marking up its version of the defense authorization bill for 2016, the committee recommended withholding funding for the U.S. Air Force's proposed Defense Weather Follow-on system pending a high-level briefing to lawmakers on the Defense Department's future coverage strategy. The bill further requires the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to certify that the strategy meets the military's needs for "cloud characterization and theater weather imagery."
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