The Air Force needs an immediate cash infusion to support plans to initiate an F-22A follow-on acquisition project in fiscal year 2017. The funds would be used to support analysis needed to proceed with identifying potential technologies for a new fighter aircraft program -- or a package of new air superiority capabilities -- to ensure U.S. control of the skies in 2030 and beyond. On June 30, the Pentagon asked Congress' permission to boost fiscal year 2016 spending on the...
