Air Force Sees First Flight Delay of B-21 Stealth Bomber
Story by Tony Capaccio • Yesterday 3:52 PM
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(Bloomberg) -- The first flight of Northrop Grumman Corp.’s B-21 Raider has slipped a few months even as the Air Force seeks congressional approval for increased procurement funding for the bomber, according to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and budget documents.
Despite the slip, “it’s still within the baseline we originally had for the program,” Kendall told a defense conference in Washington on Wednesday.
Major weapons programs have benchmarks meant to impose discipline on cost, schedule and performance to insure taxpayer dollars are well-spent and would trigger notification to Congress if breached. The delay isn’t dire, Kendall said.
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