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USAF Trims Price for E-7A in Negotiations with Boeing, Aims to Reduce F-35 Sustainment Cost

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USAF Trims Price for E-7A in Negotiations with Boeing, Aims to Reduce F-35 Sustainment Cost
Pictured is an E-7A Wedgetail (Royal Australian Air Force Photo)

U.S. Air Force negotiations with Boeing [BA] on the E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft have cut the price to be more in line with U.S. Air Force budget limits, a top service official said on May 8. "We have been executing all the work, but what we've been behind on is we got a proposal from Boeing that was roughly twice what the budgeted funding was--funds that were budgeted based originally on information from Boeing about what the cost…

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