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Article: Air Force Management of B1 `Screwed It Up,' Aspin Says
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- The Washington Post
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- March 31, 1987
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The Air Force's shoddy management of the $28.3 billion B1 bomber
program has left the United States with an aircraft that is only half
as capable of completing a wartime mission as it was intended to be,
a House committee charged yesterday.
"In the bluntest of terms, the U.S. Air Force has been a greater
threat to the success of the B1 bomber than the Soviet Union," the
House Armed Services Committee said in a report on its investigation
of the troubled bomber program.
Committee Chairman Les Aspin (D-Wis.) said yesterday that he
believes the low-flying bomber will never reach the full capability
advertised by the Air Force, because of existing problems as well as
the constantly changing ...