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  "id": "RL30552",
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      "id": 101923,
      "date": "2000-10-17",
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      "title": "Missiles for Standoff Attack: Air-Launched Air- to-Surface Munitions Programs",
      "summary": "Increasing the standoff range of air-delivered munitions and improving their accuracy and lethality\nhave become matters of major emphasis in U.S. defense plans since the 1991 Gulf War. The 1999\nconflict in Kosovo especially highlighted the value of air-to-surface munitions that could be launched\nfrom safe standoff ranges and guided to their targets with precision. \n  Since cancellation in late 1994 of the Tri-Service Standoff Attack Missile (TSSAM) program,\nvarious alternatives have been proposed, including development of a new missile or a derivative of\ncurrently operational missiles. This report focuses six air-to-surface munition programs: the Joint\nAir-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) the Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response\n(SLAM-ER), the Joint Stand-Off Weapon (JSOW), the Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile\n(CALCM), and the AGM-142 and AGM-130 missiles. All of these weapons are launched from\naircraft, in contrast ships and ground-based missile launchers.\n  The Defense Department's FY2001 budget included requests of $122.3 million for JASSM and\n$27.9 million for SLAM-ER as well as requests for other standoff munition programs such as JSOW\n($284.7 million) and AGM-130 (about $100 thousand). Appropriations conferees recommended\nfunding SLAM-ER as requested, reduced the JASSM request by $4 million and increased the JSOW\nrequest by $6.4 million. These standoff munitions programs were funded in FY1999 and FY2000\nessentially as requested, with minimal differences between the House and Senate in regard to these \nprograms; however, there are continuing differences between the Air Force and the Navy as to\nfunding priorities and military requirements for JASSM, SLAM-ER, and JSOW.\n  Issues before Congress include the relative cost and performance of these missile systems;\ntradeoffs between performance and cost that may be acceptable; perceptions of inventory\nrequirements; emphasis on development of standoff munitions at the expense of other defense\nprograms; and whether derivatives of current munitions should be procured pending development and\nproduction of more advanced standoff missiles that may be needed in post-2010 threat scenarios.\n  The quest for capable and affordable standoff air-to-surface missiles poses a number of\ninterrelated issues for Congress in evaluating the proposed alternatives: (1) the advantages of an\nentirely new design versus a derivative of currently operational munitions or designs in full-scale\ndevelopment; (2) acceptable tradeoffs between perceived performance requirements in regard to\nrange, payload, accuracy, and stealth; (3) projected inventory requirements for future combat\nscenarios; (4) the development and production costs and the delivery schedules of proposed\nalternatives; and (5) reliance on interim standoff munitions pending development of new systems.",
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    "Appropriations",
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "National Defense"
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