MICHAEL MARROW
The Air Force’s move to halve the MH-139A Grey Wolf fleet in the service’s fiscal 2025 budget proposal has triggered a “critical” cost breach for the program, lawmakers and Air Force officials revealed today.
“Just last week, we were notified of a Nunn-McCurdy breach for the MH-139 Grey Wolf,” House Appropriations defense subcommittee chairman Ken Calvert, R-Calif., said in a hearing on Capitol Hill today. “This follows the [Sentinel ICBM’s] Nunn-McCurdy breach. We need to understand the implications of both of these breach reviews for fiscal year 25 and beyond,” he added.
The Air Force notified lawmakers of the breach on April 25, according to an Air Force spokesperson. The breach “is tied to the reduction in aircraft quantities in the program,” the spokesperson said, who noted that the regular Nunn-McCurdy process will be followed with the caveat that “statute does allow the Department of Defense to handle quantity-related breaches slightly differently.”
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