Not only had it decided to kill an electronic eavesdropping plane it was developing with the Navy to home in on hostile emitters, but it also moved to terminate both of its next-generation air defense systems because threats had not evolved as expected, and drastically scaled back one version of a joint radio crucial to battlefield connectivity.

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They believe it can pass between bats, but they also think humans have unwittingly carried the fungus as they have moved from cave to cave.

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