Senate panel approves $1.2B to start US Air Force OA-X aircraft procurement
By: Valerie Insinna, June 29, 2017 (Photo Credit: Staff Sgt. Larry E. Reid Jr./US Air Force)
WASHINGTON — If the U.S. Air Force determines it needs an OA-X light attack aircraft this summer, it will find strong support in the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has already authorized $1.2 billion to begin buying new planes.
SASC, which dropped its version of the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday night, is currently the only congressional committee that has approved funding for a potential OA-X program. The U.S. Air Force itself has not even committed to starting up a program of record, intending instead to make a decision after it flies a handful of planes this August at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico.
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