{"id":70496,"date":"2024-06-22T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/553-billion-military-aircraft-more-than-half-us-defense-acquisition-costs\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T05:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:00:12","slug":"553-billion-military-aircraft-account-for-more-than-half-of-us-defense-acquisition-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=70496","title":{"rendered":"$553 Billion: Military Aircraft Account For More Than Half Of US Defense Acquisition Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Purchasing new aircraft accounts for, by far, the lion&#8217;s share of the 31 Major Defense Acquisition Programs assessed in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-24-106831.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Government Accountability Office report (GAO)<\/a> report. <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/gao-flags-serious-f-35-program-delays-2025-hardware-software-malfunctions\/\">The GAO has already flagged serious F-35 delays and cost increases<\/a>, so it shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise that the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\">F-35<\/a> accounted for the greatest year-on-year cost increase of any major program examined by the GAO. The planned expenditures highlight the United States&#8217; massive emphasis on air dominance, air-based power projection, strike missions, and aerial reconnaissance.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DoD is spending big on aircraft acquisition with apparently few large programs for ground combat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,397,2125,748,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-analysis","category-f-15","category-f-35","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70497,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70496\/revisions\/70497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}