
The air chief hinted he and other service leaders are mulling an accelerated acquisition plan for the next-generation bomber platform similar to the 1970s approach that led the Air Force to purchase F-16 aircraft. Air Force brass feel such a strategy could allow them to field a new bomber sooner than a Pentagon-mandated 2018 benchmark, Moseley said March 7 during a brief interview.
�I'm willing to look at some creative ways to give [industry] an amount of money and say, �You guys come back in X number of months and see what we got.' Let's fly these babies off and see what we end up with,� Moseley said following testimony before the House Appropriations military quality of life and Veterans Affairs subcommittee.
The Air Force is in the early stages of what likely will be a multibillion-dollar effort to develop a new long-range bomber in response to a direction in the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review to field a new platform by 2018. In his comments this week, however, Moseley hinted senior Air Force officials are mulling ways to put a new bomber in the air before that much-discussed benchmark.

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