Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) addresses budget transparency and whether the Air Force gets its fair share of funding with former Air Force Chief of Staff retired Gen. T. Michael Moseley and the National Defense Industrial Association’s Richard McConn. Held during the Air Force Association’s virtual Air, Space & Cyber Conference, the panel discussion was moderated by retired Lt. Gen. David A. Deptula, dean of AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
A new think tank analysis finds a hypothetical blended-wing body tanker could offer twice as much refueling performance as the KC-46A Pegasus and recommends the Air Force buy scores of them, as the service prepares to evaluate a BWB demonstrator next year and must juggle its future tanker plans with…