A significant reshuffling of oversight responsibility is in the offing under the leadership of the new House Armed Services Committee Chairman, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.). Government Executive reports that Skelton will shift Air Force strategic air to the Air and Land Forces Subcommittee (formerly Tactical Air and Land Forces). That will leave only Navy and Marine Corps programs within the former Projection Forces Subcommittee, now called the Seapower and Expeditionary Forces Subcommittee.
The Pentagon has concluded a new agreement to buy laser-guidance kits that turn rockets into drone-killing weapons. BAE Systems and the Defense Department announced a framework deal of up to seven years for 25,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System guidance kits annually for the U.S. military.