Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) has vowed to oppose authorization of the Air Force's Long-Range Strike Bomber contract to Northrop Grumman because the Pentagon has committed to a cost-plus arrangement, giving the potentially $80 billion program a powerful enemy on Capitol Hill. "I will not stand for cost-plus contracts," he said during a Feb. 25 breakfast with reporters in Washington. "It is an evil that has grown and grown and grown over the years and I will...
