USAF Chief Sees Possible Program Cuts

Posted on: Oct. 12th, 2005 || Source: defensenews.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

Some U.S. Air Force programs may have to be sacrificed for budget resaons, service Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley said Oct. 11.

Moseley gave no specifics, but said there might have to be "trades in the portfolio."

"This is going to be an art form," he said at an American Enterprise Institute conference called "The Future of the Air Force."

He suggested that the Pentagon could save between 25 and 40 percent of the cost of fielding new fixed-wing surveillance aircraft if it consolidated work — especially sensor packages — on the Army-Navy Aerial Common Sensor, the Navy's Multimission Maritime Aircraft, and the Air Force E-10.

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