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No CSAR-X, Period
No CSAR-X, Period: The Pentagon won’t continue the CSAR-X combat search and rescue helicopter program and has cut $144 million that had been planned for the aircraft in Fiscal 2010. In announcing the CSAR-X termination April 6, Defense Secretary Robert Gates questioned the need for a single-service, single-purpose program. The $89 million left in the fiscal 2010 budget request will be used for “a requirements review,” presumably after the need for the CSAR mission is settled in the just-commenced Quadrennial Defense Review. Because the Air Force hasn’t been replacing any of its combat-loss or retired MH-60G Pave Hawks—it has been waiting for the new aircraft—the service will start upgrading the existing fleet and will buy two new UH-60 Black Hawks through the Army to supplement what’s left.
5/8/2009
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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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