
The House Armed Services Committee's (HASC) draft version of the committee's fiscal 2024 defense authorization bill, H.R. 2670, asks U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall to provide HASC by March 1 next year with options to accelerate procurement and fielding of the Boeing [BA] T-7A Red Hawk trainer, which is in the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase to replace the T-38C. Boeing and its teammate Saab in 2018 won the potential $9.2 billion contract for up to 351 T-7As. The…