CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings January 20, 2015
Four years later the squadron was operational and we built nearly 3,000 of them. Compare that to the f22. In 1981 the air force established a requirement for 750 advanced tactical fighters. It wasnt until 2005, 24 years later, that the f22 was first introduced and instead of 750 of them, we bought 195. If boeing can field a new commercial airliner in five years, and ford can take a car from design to production in 24 months, then theres absolutely no reason the pentagon should take two decades to put a new fighter into service. Things have to change. We have the unfortunate tendency to fix org...