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Air Force

Bunch Warns Continuing Resolution Puts OCX At Further Risk

Pat Host

Wednesday, March 29th, 2017

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Bunch Warns Continuing Resolution Puts OCX At Further Risk

The Air Force would be forced to tell Raytheon [RTN] to stop work on OCX if Congress extends its continuing resolution (CR) through the rest of fiscal year 2017, according to a key officer.Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Military Deputy, Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch testified Wednesday that a year-long CR would be devastating to Air Force modernization efforts. The service and Raytheon are already struggling with fixing OCX, formally known as the next-generation Operational…

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