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Transcript: AIR FORCE CHIEF PREDICTS FEWER `EXQUISITE' ACQUISITION PROGRAMS
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- May 22, 2009
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INDSTRY GROUP 91
Regulatory Intelligence Data
05-22-2009
WASHINGTON, May 22, 2009 - The Air Force is taking a more critical eye
in weighing the technological capabilities of new systems against their
corresponding cost, the Air Force's top military officer said here yesterday.
"We have had a temptation to design and try to build the most exquisite
systems, and we've proven we can do that," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.
Norton A. Schwartz said during remarks at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies here. Ultra-capable, sophisticated -- and correspondingly
expensive -- weapons and other military-related systems "may have a place
in certain instances," Schwartz said. But building "too ...