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Air Force

USAF ‘Very Opposed’ to HASC Cost Targets for CCA

Frank Wolfe

Monday, September 11th, 2023

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USAF ‘Very Opposed’ to HASC Cost Targets for CCA

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall delivers a keynote address at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Md., Sept 11, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Andy Morataya)

The House Armed Services Committee's (HASC) version of a fiscal 2024 defense authorization bill would put the U.S. Air Force's Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program in three cost target categories that the Air Force finds unacceptable. "We're very opposed to those cost targets," Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters on Sept. 11 at the Air and Space Forces Association's air, space, and cyber conference at National Harbor, Md. "I don't know where those categories came from. That is not…

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