The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2016 NDAA, which exempted a total of nine RD-180 engines, prevailed in the compromise bill hashed out by House and Senate conferees.

Monday’s briefing begins with a report that the Air Force was warned last year by a panel of acquisition officials to throttle back on replacing the Russian rocket engine that powers its Atlas 5 workhorse.

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