Air Force Has Completed Major LRS-B Risk Reduction Prior To Award

By Courtney Albon / September 3, 2015 at 12:41 PM
Air Force officials disclosed this week that the service has completed major subsystem risk reduction on its Long-Range Strike Bomber, which they expect will shorten the time frame required for the engineering and manufacturing development phase. The service met with stakeholders Sept. 1 to discuss the program, and some of those details were revealed in a Sept. 3 Congressional Research Service report . The report states that officials expect that by the time the service awards an LRS-B development contract...

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