An entry in the Dec. 17 Daily Report incorrectly cited additional procurement amounts funded by the overseas contingency operations account rather than total aircraft, missile, and ammunition procurement numbers. For the Air Force, the omnibus spending bill provides $15.7 billion in aircraft procurement, $2.9 billion in missile procurement, and $1.7 billion for ammunition procurement in the base budget. It provides an additional? $128.9 million for aircraft procurement, $289.1 million in missile procurement, and $228.8 million in ammunition procurement from the OCO. The original entry has been corrected online.
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.