USAF to start upgrading Joint STARS for cruise missile defense

The U.S. Air Force has been instructed by House and Senate defense authorization conferees to start upgrading the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) for a cruise missile defense role. The president's budget request did not include funding to transition sensor technology from...

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