Engineering difficulties have raised program costs for two key aircraft efforts by a total of more than $7 billion, the Pentagon confirmed today. In its latest Selected Acquisition Reports to Congress, the Defense Department acknowledged that the Army's Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter program and the Air Force's C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program have significantly exceeded original cost targets. While the Pentagon has previously acknowledged difficulty with these two programs, it provided new details today about exactly how much it will...
