DOD shelves annual aviation inventory update that once provided 30-year view

By Jason Sherman / April 24, 2019 at 4:37 PM
The Pentagon has officially stopped producing an annual aviation inventory and funding plan which had been sent to Congress after delivery of the president's budget for nearly a decade, denying defense aviation wonks a key resource in scrutinizing the U.S. military's long-term investment about the approximately 14,000 aircraft flown and operated by the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. Christopher Sherwood, a Pentagon spokesman for the office of cost assessment and program evaluation that worked with the military services...

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