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Air Force

Kendall Directs Prototyping Effort To Maintain Design Capacity

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, November 29th, 2012

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The Pentagon’s acquisition chief has directed the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) lead an effort to design a high performance aircraft that would lead to a working prototype to help preserve key industrial base capacities around design, given that no new major aircraft development programs are being planned. “But the bottom line is given no new designs, no major development programs in a certain commodity area, we really need to do something in some cases to preserve our design…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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