JLENS’s FY 2016 got slashed by $30 milllion

U.S. lawmakers choose to reduce the funding for the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) by $30 million, giving only $10.5 million to fund the program.

By John Hamilton (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/568995) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

This leaves the aerostat’s fate in question after one of the two aerostat broke free from its mooring at Aberdeen Proving Ground in October.

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