Air Force Secretary: Long-Range Strike Bomber RFP Expected This Fall

By Courtney Albon / February 28, 2014 at 2:56 PM
The Air Force plans to issue a formal request for proposals this fall for the much-anticipated Long-Range Strike Bomber, according to the service's top civilian official. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said on Feb. 26 at a Bloomberg Defense conference that the service has issued a draft RFP and that two teams are working on "pre-proposal types of activities" that will push the Long-Range Strike Bomber program into competition later this year. Until now, the service had not...

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