Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld’s take on the BRAC process so far is that the Pentagon provided “certified data” while everything that has come out of other sources since is “marketing data.” One has to give more weight to certified data, prepared during two years of work, than to data being presented to sell a point of view, Rumsfeld told reporters Tuesday.
As the threat of Iranian-made drones grew, the Air Force rushed last year to equip F-15E Strike Eagles in the Middle East with a cheap, cost-effective way of defeating them. The service fielded the new capability in roughly a week.
