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Title: Air Force meets its goal to shave a century from its weapons development schedules
Post by: rangerrebew on May 24, 2019, 10:00:01 am

Air Force meets its goal to shave a century from its weapons development schedules
By: Valerie Insinna   14 hours ago


WASHINGTON — The Air Force has officially stripped 100 years out of the schedules of its acquisition programs, the service’s top civilian announced Thursday.

“The Air Force has taken advantage of the authorities that Congress has given us to try to do things faster and smarter,” Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said during an event on Capitol Hill. “[Having] unnecessary schedule delays getting capability to the warfighter and speed matters in an era of re-emerged great power competition.”

A number of Air Force programs have shrunk down their schedules in the hopes of challenging acquisition personnel to get weapons to airmen quicker. For instance, the B-52 engine replacement program cut more than three years from its planned development cycle. The “F-22 Capability Pipeline,” a suite of upgrades for that jet, cut out two years from that program.

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