The Air Force would defer the purchase of up to 24 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft over five years if one of its fiscal year 2015 acquisition plans, which accounts for full sequestration in each year, is enacted, the service's acting secretary said this morning. Eric Fanning also addressed the way the service has approached its budgeting decisions -- focusing on its minimum requirements in what is known as the alternative program objective memoranda, or Alt POM, unlike the other services...
