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U.S. Air Force Plans to Award Contract to Replace A-10 Computer in Fiscal 2022

U.S. Air Force Plans to Award Contract to Replace A-10 Computer in Fiscal 2022
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Jackson, 354th Aircraft Maintenance Unit weapons expediter, briefs Senior Airman Isaiah Stevens, 621st Contingency Response Squadron air transportation specialist, during an A-10 Thunderbolt II agile combat employment immersion at Volk Field Air National Guard Base, Wisconsin on May 20. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

While the U.S. Air Force fiscal 2022 budget request proposes reducing the A-10 "Warthog" close air support (CAS) fleet from 281 to 239 as part of a retirement of 201 planes across the service to help pay for a $2.2 billion increase in research and development, the Air Force also plans to continue to finish a rewinging of 218 A-10s and install a new computer for them. In 2019, the service said that it wanted to redesign the computer, the…

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