The Air Force wants to buy 10 to 12 massive conventional bunker-breaking bombs as part of a recent effort to fast-track financing for the new weapon, known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a senior service acquisition official said today. The Air Force still is awaiting one congressional defense committee's approval of a July 8 reprogramming request, which detailed plans to accelerate development of the MOP and related programs, the service's top uniformed acquisition official, Lt. Gen. Mark Shackelford, told reporters...
