Pawlikowski: Light-attack experiment a success, but Air Force needs buy plan

By Courtney Albon / March 16, 2018 at 11:32 AM
The head of Air Force Materiel Command said this week she counts the service's ongoing light-attack experimentation effort as a success, but that the challenge will be in readying its acquisition enterprise to rapidly procure the aircraft. "It was hugely successful in terms of the idea that the primary purpose of experimentation is to, as quickly as possible, get something that works into the hands of the guys that are going to use it," Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski said during a...

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