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Subject: QDR Should be interesting, New Cuts Incoming
Galrahn    12/12/2005 4:17:03 PM
From InsideDefense.com

"The Defense Department is cutting $1.1 billion from the Marine Corps? MV-22 Osprey program, which could lead naval officials to significantly curtail the number of tiltrotors DOD buys in the coming years."

Apparently this is included in the upcoming QDR. It is also rumored in the QDR that the Navy is sticking with 8 DD(X) ships to provide fire support.

Looks like the Navy is cutting the T-AOE(X) cargo ship program and the Osprey program but will buy 8 DD(X)s. Both USS Iowa and USS Wisconsin battleships will be turned into museums. LHA(R) will move forward, but no word yet regarding the questions for future US carriers.
 
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buyer    RE:QDR Should be interesting, New Cuts Incoming   12/12/2005 11:28:48 PM
Most folks have indicated that to a large degree, the QDR process has been reduced from what was to be a long range transformational process to a budget cutting exercise. Also sound like they have found a way to keep both the F/A-22 and the F-35 both in their budget.
 
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buyer    RE:QDR Should be interesting, New Cuts Incoming   2/5/2006 5:54:16 PM
So what was so interetsting? Seemed to be little more than one big exercise in trying to find a way to fit a 10 lb army into a 5 lb bag.
 
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Galrahn    RE:QDR Should be interesting, New Cuts Incoming   3/3/2006 2:31:35 PM
Agreed, they didn't recommend any cuts. To me, the QDR was basically a report designed to tell everyone outside the Pentagon that the Pentagon knows best. Might be why it got such polite reviews by almost everyone else.
 
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