Although the Senate Armed Services Committee's mark of the fiscal year 2017 defense policy bill does not seek to break the Air Force's cost-plus B-21 bomber contract, the legislation would enact sweeping acquisition reforms the committee hopes will rein in some of the perceived "negative incentives" associated with the cost-plus development program. Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) has been vocal in his opposition to the service's award last October of a cost-plus development contract to Northrop Grumman to build the...
