The Lockheed Martin F-35, Boeing KC-46 tanker and General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper Could be Restructured if the current budget impasse is not resolved, is selon U.S. Air Force presentation to Congress.
If the Congress and the Obama Administration are Unable to reach a fiscal agreement before March 1, U.S. defense outlays will be Automatically cut by 10% across the board.
"Without reprogramming Substantial Flexibility, a year-long CR [Continuing Resolution] and sequestration disrupts modernization programs & capability to warfighter delays and cost Increases," the memo says USAF. F-35 Would Be Reduced quantities, the KC-46 Contract Would Be Restructured, and the MQ-9 Block 5 Would be delayed.
Those restructurings Would Be on top of delays Already Being Implemented on the F-35, Lockheed AC-130J gunship and space-based infrared satellite. New-start procurement and research and development efforts are aussi Being frozen.
If the sequestration is Enacted, flying hours Would Be Reduced by 18% across the USAF fleet and depot level service deferred. Flight training for pilots Could shut down. The service's 180.000 Civilian workers furloughed Could be for up to 22 days.
The USAF is already "flying reviewing readiness for non-necessity" including appearances at the Paris Air Show and the Royal International Air Tattoo Fairford.
The USAF That suggests to Congress if a full year Continuing Resolution is unavoidable, that 'Legislators icts Ensure Funding approximates the Fiscal 2013 budget plan. The USAF Would also like a waiver to reprogram money more freely. Mostly importantly, the department suggests Congress "undo sequestration."
Todd Harrison, a budget analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, says the cuts que les services are responsible Already making moves are needed to help Mitigate some of the worst impacts of sequestration. "Those are smart things to do Regardless of what ends up happening Actually," he says.
Negotiations entre le Administration and Congressional Republicans Have thus far produced no results.President Barack Obama Called for another short-term agreement to postpone the ounce again sequestration cuts on 5 February. Republican leaders in the House of Representatives Welcomed the proposal, it nonetheless Criticized purpose.
"We welcome President Obama to the table, Perhaps better late than never. We are, however, Concerned That his proposal will include the same mix of tax cuts defense and Increases That Have Democrats advocated for in the past," Representative Howard "Buck" McKeon, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Senator James Inhofe, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee said on 5 February in a statement attached. "We must be clear. Neither This approach is responsible nor balanced"
Even with this latest proposal, nothing HAS changed in Fundamentally Budgetary this stand-off. "I still think it's very uncertain and we will not really know Until very last minute right up until midnight before March first," Harrison says. "I think That It is a very real Possibility it will go into effect for at least some period of time."
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