Senate Armed Services Committee lawmakers have voted to repeal a more-than-decade-old law requiring the Government Accountability Office to independently review and assess missile defense acquisition programs, which would strip away a key source of outside accountability over the Missile Defense Agency. The Senate panel's action, published June 26 , is part of the committee’s fiscal year 2027 defense authorization bill. Section 1537 of the committee’s mark would repeal a provision of the FY-12 National Defense Authorization Act, which established...