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Air Force

Trump Could Target Cost-Plus Development Programs To Rein In Costs, Adviser Says

Pat Host

Tuesday, December 13th, 2016

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Trump Could Target Cost-Plus Development Programs To Rein In Costs, Adviser Says

Maintenance staff inspect one of the 10 Luke AFB F-35s sent to Nellis AFB for a training deployment, April 15, 2015. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

President-elect Donald Trump might focus on managing cost-plus defense development programs as a way to extract better deals for taxpayers, according to an adviser to Trump’s transition team.“I see this as a deal making proposition,” former Rep. Bob Walker (R-Pa.) said at the Eilene Galloway space law symposium in Washington. “My guess is you’re going to see him do that.”Trump’s Monday tweet calling F-35 costs out of control came on the heels of another attack against a high-profile defense program:…

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