Unit costs for the Air Force's new, multibillion-dollar space-launch program have risen more than 25 percent due to procurement violations by Boeing and a slide in the commercial launch market, resulting in a breach of the so-called Nunn-McCurdy threshold, a senor Air Force budget official said last week. The service will ask Congress for $638 million in fiscal year 2005 for the program, according to the defense budget request Congress receives today. The administration will ask Congress to approve a...
