Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters, “When the history of this time is written—an era of tragedy and turmoil and triumph—I believe it will be said of Dick Myers that he was one of the most consequential Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs in our history.”
A combined Navy and Air Force program is seeking to build a smaller version of a ubiquitous air-to-air missile that could give advanced aircraft, such as the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, greater magazine depth in a high-end fight.