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Agency Oversight

The Defense Department is urged to get a better handle on its tactical aircraft investments

Fighter plans and attack planes are known as tactical aircraft. The armed services have a lot of them, mostly old. So old, most of them are past their services lives. Yet they are still in the inventory and the Defense Department wants to spend a hundred billion dollars to refresh the fleet. The Government Accountability Office finds, DoD needs more detailed analysis before proceeding.

Defense

Pentagon faces political battle to retire old weapons systems — and some newer ones

Air Force

Air Force seeks new opportunities to apply the computer-to-prototype model of design

On DoD

Navy using data analytics to tackle aviation readiness problems

Federal Insights

Innovation in aircraft maintenance leads to increased readiness
Insight by Vertex Aerospace