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$1.5 Billion Requested Increase for USAF Munitions to Aid Ramp Up of JATM

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023

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$1.5 Billion Requested Increase for USAF Munitions to Aid Ramp Up of JATM

An F-15E Strike Eagle is loaded with five JASSMs at Eglin AFB, Fla., on May 11, 2021 as part of Project Strike Rodeo, led by the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The U.S. Air Force is moving toward procuring the Lockheed Martin [LMT] AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM), Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on May 2. SASC Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) told Kendall and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown at the May 2 hearing that he thinks that the service's planned autonomous Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) "makes a great deal of sense." "One of the constraints I think we have…

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