The Air Force has told lawmakers it could use $140 million in fiscal year 2010 to keep its highly classified Next-Generation Bomber program alive, Inside the Air Force has learned. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz included the funding in a classified line item on the service's $1.9 billion FY-10 unfunded priorities list. Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA) let the cat out of the bag this week during a June 3 House Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing. "I understand that...
