A panel of top Pentagon leaders today rejected the Air Force's proposal to kill a multibillion-dollar initiative to replace the cockpits in hundreds of C-130 transport aircraft, Inside the Air Force has learned. The Deputy's Advisory Working Group -- co-chaired by Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright -- met today and instructed the Air Force to fully fund the C-130 Avionics Modernization Program over the next five years,...
