QDR Tiger Team to Study Air Force's Long-Range Strike Mission

By Marcus Weisgerber / July 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon has established a "tiger team" to study the Air Force's Next-Generation Bomber requirement and make recommendations that will influence the high-profile Quadrennial Defense Review, according to a senior Defense Department official. "That group is reexamining both the nature of that [long-range strike] mission and opportunities for accomplishing that mission technologically and conceptually," David Ochmanek, deputy assistant secretary of defense for force development and head of the QDR analysis and integration cell, told defense reporters in Washington this morning...

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