The legislation, passed through committee today, also fixed what one lawmaker said were billions of dollars worth of accounting errors in the Pentagon’s budget proposal.
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The White House made official what many in defense circles have been whispering: That the administration is prioritizing the Air Force’s next jet over the Navy’s future capability.
The Navy's Unfunded Priorities List, obtained by Breaking Defense, seeks roughly $1.4 billion in funding to award a contract to industry for the F/A-XX program.
The budget reveals new details about some key programs, including an apparent decision to put the Navy's next-gen fighter jet on the backburner.
"We cannot wait," Rep. Ken Calvert said. "Further, we cannot expect to grow the defense industrial base by undermining it."
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Meanwhile, Rear Adm. Michael Donnelly said in a separate panel today that a "core attribute" of the plane is expected to be its range, up to "probably" 125 percent "of the range that we're currently seeing today to give us better flexibility [and] operational reach."
“An open question for Lockheed Martin is why it has not been able to win major new military aerospace competitions,” Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners said in a note to investors.
“We’ve been flying a prototype for quite some time,” said Steve Parker, Boeing’s interim defense unit CEO. “And we won the program. So that is a maturity stamp that I’ll give you right then and there.”
A source with knowledge of the program told Breaking Defense that Lockheed submitted a bid for the next-gen fighter effort, but the proposal did not satisfy the Navy’s criteria, leaving Boeing and Northrop Grumman as the remaining competitors.
The two companies are facing off under the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion program, which is developing a powerplant for an Air Force next-generation fighter — assuming one comes to pass.
"Adding a second submarine would require the Department to reduce the Next Generation Fighter program by $400 million, making the fighter program unexecutable and degrading the Navy's ability to field next generation aircraft capabilities required in the 2033 to 2037 timeframe,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.
The review was to examine whether the Air Force was moving too fast in pushing the plane into the EMD phase, but there was no EMD phase after all.