A Senate subcommittee voted to support the Obama administration’s nearly $11 billion funding request for America’s most elite military forces, including funds for US Special Operations Command to purchase new General Atomics-made Reaper UAVs and other tactical UAVs.
The Armed Services Committee Emerging Threats and Capabilities (ETC) subcommittee on Tuesday approved part of the full Senate Armed Services Committee’s 2016 national defense authorization act (NDAA), according to a report in Defense News.
The section of the NDAA also contains several cybersecurity provisions, including one that would require the Pentagon to establish a panel of independent cyber experts, according to subcommittee ranking member Bill Nelson, D-Fla..
