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FY ’23 Funding To Accelerate E-7 Program Won’t Change Schedule, Kendall Says

FY ’23 Funding To Accelerate E-7 Program Won’t Change Schedule, Kendall Says
Royal Air Force E-7 Wedgetail warning and command and control aircraft. Photo: Boeing

The schedule to field the first E-7A Wedgetail airborne warning command and control aircraft remains intact despite an additional $200 million that Congress appropriated in fiscal year 2023 to accelerate the program, Air Force officials said on Tuesday. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told a Senate panel that funding to accelerate the E-7 would be to get more of the aircraft sooner, suggesting for example that instead of buying one aircraft, then two the following year, and three the year…

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