The US Air Force would find it “almost impossible” to vacate certain bands of radio waves used primarily for radars, the service’s new secretary said, hours before President Donald Trump doubled down on plans for a spectrum sale.
Secretary Troy Meink’s statements Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee likely will fuel the opposition of defense hawks’ plans that aim to auction portions of the electromagnetic spectrum to raise money for a massive GOP tax package.
Still, Trump prodded Congress to include the sale of spectrum in the massive tax-cut and spending bill, referred to as reconciliation. “I am going ...