Faced with massive modernization demands and a hefty sustainment backlog, the Air Force has sought to balance its budget books by underreporting needed infrastructure upgrades when setting up new programs, a former service official told Inside Defense . In a scenario in which “you got to lay down five hangars . . . you’re not lying about the cost, but what you’re saying is: 'I can use existing hangars, right, I can use current runway,'” Ravi Chaudhary, the previous Air...
