Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley said he’s going to become more of a hard-liner about acquisition programs that “spiral out of control.” In an address to the American Enterprise Institute in Washington Tuesday, Moseley said that if there were “exponential growth” in the size or cost of a program, his impulse would be to “kill it.”
As Air Force leaders consider concepts of operations for Collaborative Combat Aircraft, sustainment in the field—and easing that support by using standard parts and limiting variants—should be a key consideration, according to a new study from AFA's Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Studies.