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USAF Finalizing First ‘Quick Start’ Program Proposal

USAF Finalizing First ‘Quick Start’ Program Proposal
The U.S. Air Force 595th Command and Control Group held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the reopening of the E-4B hangar on Feb. 21, 2023, at Offutt AFB, Neb. A March 2019 flood severely damaged the home of the famous "Doomsday Planes," the Air Force said (U.S. Air Force Photo)

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said that the Department of the Air Force is finalizing its recommendation for the first "quick start" modernization program allowed under the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, P.L. 118-31. Section 229 of the law "gives us the ability to start what would be a major new program without waiting for this whole [congressional appropriations] process," Kendall said on Feb. 8 at a RAND forum on the PPBE Reform Commission. "That's a breakthrough to…

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