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How DoD Can Manage The Great Bow Wave
Bob Hale knows budgets. He crafted them for the Air Force and he crafted them for the entire Defense Department. America faces a large spending spike by 2025 that grows even larger later. So, how can...
View ArticleSen. McCain: Keep the B-21 On Track
The Air Force’s new B-21 long range strike bomber acquisition program has encountered turbulence in recent weeks as Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, declared: “I will...
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Doyle’s Wrong: Bombers ARE Best For Nuclear Signaling
The modernization of America’s nuclear weapons looms as one of the largest and most crucial set of strategic and spending decisions the American military faces over the next decade. A crucial element...
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Change How Air Force Buys Compass Call, JSTARS
The 21st century is defined by connectivity, from our iPhones to the networks that power our economy. The US military is not immune to this. Either it seizes opportunities presented by the information...
View ArticleTo Sen. McCain: Why SASC Should Not Change B-21 Acquisition Rules
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has placed language in the 1,600 pages of its draft of the National Defense Authorization Act that would fundamentally alter how standard acquisition policies...
View ArticleB-21 Costs Must Stay Secret, Insists Air Force RCO Head
The classified costs of the B-21 bomber should remain secret because revealing the figure would be “too insightful for the adversaries to get a sense of what they can do (and) what the U.S. can do in...
View ArticleB-21 Bomber Estimate By CAPE: $511M A Copy
CORRECTED: Attribution of Air Force Buying New Advanced Fighter NATIONAL HARBOR: The Air Force’s new bomber, the B-21 Raider, should come in almost $40 million below the official $550 million a copy...
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Airmen First, Weapons Second: SecAF James
AFA: For the foreseeable future, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James told me today, when push comes to shove, personnel funding should win and modernization must wait. “If you’re asking me if I have...
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Keep The Pilots For B-21: Former B-2 Fliers
CAPITOL HILL: The B-21 will be America’s next bomber and the Air Force says it will be “optionally manned.” That’s fine, say some of America’s most experienced B-2 pilots. Just keep the pilots. You’ll...
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What Will New Bomber Squadrons Mean For Air Force? 75 More B-21s?
So reporters kept pressing Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Chief of Staff David Goldfein for answers to the reasonable question: How will the Air Force afford 74 more squadrons with all the...
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Air Force Modernization On The Table: CSAF Gen. Welsh
WASHINGTON: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh made clear today that, while his service will make its arguments for modernization programs such as the JSTARS replacement, F-35 and Long Range...
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Boeing’s Bomber Protest Is Fundamentally Flawed
Who’s right about the Long Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) program: defense consultant Loren Thompson or the Air Force and senior Defense Department officials? The Air Force awarded the LRSB contract to...
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Northrop Unveils Sixth Gen Fighter Concept
PALMDALE, CALIF: Northrop Grumman unveiled its vision of the so-called sixth-generation fighter, showing reporters a laser-firing aircraft that looks like a cross between the B-2 bomber and the X-47B...
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SecAF Unveils B-21 Bomber; Replies To McCain’s Contract Threat
AFA WINTER: The name is not nearly as euphonious as the B-3, nor as descriptive as Long Range Strike Bomber, but Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has officially named Northrop Grumman’s aircraft...
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B-21 And F-35 Engines May Share Tech; Pratt Won’t Talk
WASHINGTON: The B-21 bomber probably uses some common technologies and equipment to that used for the Joint Strike Fighter’s F135 engine. We can’t be certain because no one will confirm it. But Lt....
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