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(Source: see each item below; web-posted April 14, 2003)
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EDITOR’S NOTE: We have posted below links to two additional items in the ongoing debate about the cost and affordability of the US Air Force’s F/A-22 Raptor program.
Additional testimonies, notably by US Air Force and Pentagon officials, are not currently available as they have not been posted on the House subcommittee website.
Two recent reports on the issue by the General Accounting Office are available in our Official Reports section.
Better Acquisition Outcomes are Possible if DoD Can Apply Lessons from F/A-22 Program
Testimony by David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations, House Committee on Government Reform.
Ref: GAO-03-645T, April 11.
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-03-645T
CDI: Testimony on the F/A-22
Prepared testimony of CDI Senior Analyst Christopher Hellman for his April 11, 2003, appearance before the Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations of the House Government Reform Committee.
Hellman holds that a silver bullet" buy of the F/A-22 fielding one air wing (with training and attrition replacement) would permit the Air Force to learn about producing such technically complex aircraft; permit the development of suitable operational tactics; and provide a sufficient force to perform any future missions requiring the F/A-22's stealth characteristics and other improved performance capabilities. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that limiting the F/A-22 program to such a force while replacing the remaining proposed F/A-22s with new F-15s would save $10 billion over 10 years.
http://www.cdi.org/mrp/fa22.cfm
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