According to the Air Force’s top acquisition official, Sue Payton, the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System program suffered a Nunn-McCurdy breach—mentioned in the April Selected Acquisition Reports—because USAF and the Navy wanted to add “improved capability to avoid diminishing manufacturing sources and obsolescence.” Payton told reporters last week that such “spiral development holds a lot of promise to get the best capability,” however it undoubtedly will result in “more Nunn-McCurdys in the future” because of the new law governing original baseline dollars. There was just one more JPATS problem. Payton said, “We also early on assumed that we would have more sales so the price per aircraft would be lower.” The JPATS program will continue.
B-21 Temporary Shelters Could Also Shelter B-2s
March 5, 2021
The Air Force's experimental runway shelter for the new B-21 bomber is large enough to cover it or the B-2, and therefore reveals no information about the dimensions of the new aircraft. Two such shelters will be evaluated, but the maker of the second version hasn't been chosen, yet.