House Leader Lukewarm on NGAD.

• Position: IN BRIEF

* The Next Generation Air Dominance platform, the Air Force's future jet fighter, is expected to be a package of a sixth-generation stealth tech, autonomous drones and an array of weapons and sensors. But the chair of the House Armed Services Committee said he isn't ready to go all-in on the program.

"I'm always reluctant to put a whole lot of chips in the middle of the table when you don't know for sure, and the NGAD seems like a whole lot of chips going into the middle of the table," Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash, told reporters.

Fighters haven't been a big part of recent conflicts, he noted. "It seems to me that the investments we should be making are in more...