The Air Force has reworked the Long-Range Strike Bomber funding profile, proposing a five-year, $12 billion research and development allocation between fiscal years 2017 and 2021 -- a $1.7 billion reduction compared to last year's outlook -- and reflecting the first budget request to factor Northrop Grumman as prime contractor on the high-priority aircraft project. While the Air Force's FY-17 budget request reveals the research and development funding profile for the potential $100 billion bomber acquisition, the service has classified...
