Posts by Bill Sweetman

US Air Force chief of staff Gen. David Allvin set the cat among the pigeons on Thursday by suggesting that the service might not proceed as expected with its planned next major combat aircraft, the Next Generation Air Dominance program. This came as a shock,...

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Yes, this is a Dr. Seuss reference. And this is where you can buy my book, which you should, if you want to understand what the bleep is going on in defense acquisition. "Oh, another negative GAO report on F-35", yawn the usual suspects....

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Uncrewed, reusable, weapon-carrying fast-jet aircraft have had many names since the WW2 and Vietnam-era idea was revived in the mid-1990s. Maybe 37, which is 37 more than the number of such aircraft that have been delivered to operational units. Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) is the latest. It's survived...

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The last big book on Area 51 was written in 2011 by Annie Jacobsen, previously best known for throwing a case of the screaming abdabs over some Syrian musicians on a 2004 Northwest Airlines flight. It would never have gotten past an agent but for the sensational ending,...

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