The Air Force will return to its roots in the coming years, tailoring its acquisition needs to meet the Pentagon’s Pacific-focused military strategy by buying stealthy aircraft and systems.
That means the service will look to purchase systems and aircraft — particularly a new bomber — that can fly without being noticed in denied airspace, a reversal of Air Force operations over the past decade. ...
Systems that can survive in contested — or anti-access or access-denied, as it’s called in Pentagon speak — airspace are “going to be played very heavily” in the Air Force’s 2014 budget and internal six-year spending plan, known as the program objective memorandum, he said.
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