Budget cuts and a recent Nunn-McCurdy cost breach have delayed the initial operational capability for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye maritime surveillance aircraft by more than three years, to fiscal year 2015, according to the program manager. The E-2D, which would replace the E-2C Hawkeye used today, was initially supposed to reach IOC in 2011, but "we believe right now that first quarter FY-15 is a solid date," Capt. Shane Gahagan, E-2D program manager, said in an Aug. 4 interview with...
