The Pentagon's multimillion-dollar plan to finally buy cockpit voice recorders for V-22 Ospreys, a requirement established by Congress more than a decade ago, puts a fraction of the programmed funding in the department's current budget request and would take years to field the missing mandatory devices. The Fiscal Year 2001 National Defense Authorization Act called on the Defense Department to install the devices on all Ospreys. Although V-22s carry flight data recorders, none -- including the Marine Corps MV-22 that...
