Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) named Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) our June 2023 Porkers of the Month for wanting to spend trillions of dollars more for their latest “Green New Deal” scheme.
The U.S. Air Force has officially begun to accept proposals for the sixth-generation Next Generation Air Dominance fighter and plans to award the contract in 2024. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall ominously stated that the classified and secretive NGAD will cost “multiples” of the F-35, meaning each aircraft will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
While its fifth-generation fleet offers unsurpassed capability, it is vital that the Department of Defense correct the mistakes incurred in its development.
In 2014, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) under the Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The inclusion of Boeing, a longstanding aerospace firm with decades of know-how, was expected, but the addition of SpaceX was an indication that NASA was ready to increase competition and use new technology.
Nearly 10 years after the contract was awarded, only one of the contractors can offer viable transportation to the ISS, and it is not the established aerospace veteran.
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