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New CSAR-X Amendment Issued
New CSAR-X Amendment Issued: The Air For ce released the newest update to its CSAR-X solicitation, amendment 7, on Dec. 5. In a statement issued that same day, the service said the amendment contains “minor changes” that are meant “to further clarify” how it will choose the winning helicopter design to replace its aging HH-60G Pave Hawks. But there is no target date given for when the decision will be made next year. And, an Air Force spokesman confirmed to the Daily Report yesterday that “no date has been established,” when asked for more specific information. The amendment does reflect an additional slip of roughly six months to the projected start of operations of the first CSAR-X squadron. Whereas this past summer, Air Force officials were still hoping to start operations of the first unit as well as the CSAR-X training squadron between the first quarter of Fiscal 2013 and the fourth quarter of Fiscal 2014, the service is now speaking of the window between the third quarter of Fiscal 2013 and the second quarter of Fiscal 2015. (Remember, before the two rounds of successful legal protests by Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky after the Air Force crowned Boeing’s HH-47 the winner in November 2006, the Air Force planned to field the first unit before the end of Fiscal 2012.) Prior to late October, the Air Force had been saying publicly that it expected to award the CSAR-X contract before the end of 2008. But then it subsequently gave notice of its intent to issue the new amendment, and said at the time that this process would cause a “minor delay” to the program. The Air Force plans to buy 141 CSAR-X helicopters under work that could be worth up to $15 billion to the winning contractor.
12/9/2008
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Preemptive Action
"Since the [Defense] Department's acceptance of the independent estimates last fall, we've been, in just about every respect, acting as if the program were in a Nunn-McCurdy breach. ... We've been taking all of the mitigating and corrective action that we would take as if there were a Nunn-McCurdy breach."
—Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, discussing with reporters the restructure of the F-35 strike fighter program announced in February 2010 and the probability that the program will soon exceed Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds that would necessitate, per US law, a program review and corrective steps, Washington, D.C., March 2, 2010. |
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Message for Grandma
"She has working for her as a citizen in the United States an Air Force Reserve that has some very talented, capable, patriotic, and willing individuals doing the business to keep this nation free. Just like her generation—the 'Greatest Generation'—was, I am very proud of the folks that we have got. If not the second greatest, then they are an extension of the greatest generation and they are ready, willing, and able to do the things that she would want them to do to make sure we keep our freedoms."
—Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, Air Force Reserve chief, responding to a reporter's question on what the reporter should tell his 85-year-old grandmother to convey to her the importance of Air Force Reservists to the nation's security, Orlando, Fla., Feb. 19, 2010.
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