The Air Force plans to invest $197 million in maturing technologies for the new long-range penetrating bomber, according to the fiscal year 2012 budget request released today. The bomber is slated to be part of a family of systems that will include electronic-attack and communications capabilities as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies, said Maj. Gen. Alfred Flowers, deputy assistant secretary for budget in the office of the assistant secretary for financial management. The service plans to invest $3.7...
