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Acquisition Update
Acquisition Update: The Air Force expects to be able to make a decision on the winning CSAR-X helicopter “by the spring timeframe,” according to Maj. Gen. Randy Fullhart, director of global reach programs in the Air Force Secretariat. Appearing Feb. 1 on This Week in Defense News, a CBS TV news show, Fullhart also said the Air Force hopes to get out a new request for proposal for the KC-X tanker sometime this year. The Air Force, he said, is “still going to press forward with the idea of one aircraft” being chosen via a winner-take-all competition between Boeing and Northrop Grumman and is against a split-buy strategy (i.e., buying both Boeing and Northrop tankers) because, as Defense Secretary Robert Gates has stated, a split buy “doubles the cost up front” of the acquisition. The Air Force is also planning to issue a new request for information to industry this month on fee-for-service aerial refueling services, said Fullhart. This could potentially lead to a request for proposal later this year. As for the future of the C-17 production line, Fullhart said service officials “see the end in sight” and have no intention of continuing production beyond the current 205-aircraft program of record.
2/4/2009
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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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