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To help improve the Air Force's ability to forsee the implications for safety, aircraft availability and cost of its plans to retain aircraft fleets for service lives that may last 80 years, this study measures how aircraft fleets ages relate to maintenance workloads and material consumption.

Airplanes, Military --- Maintenance and repair. --- United States. --- Ground support.

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Examines whether key Department of Defense (DOD) aircraft have been able to meet mission capable (MC) and full mission capable (FMC) goals in recent years, and DOD's process for setting aircraft availability goals.

Airplanes, Military --- Military readiness --- Maintenance and repair --- Evaluation. --- United States. --- Rules and practice --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Operational readiness.

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F-22 (Jet fighter plane) --- Attack planes --- Airplanes, Military --- Costs. --- Costs. --- Costs. --- United States. --- Appropriations and expenditures.

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Responds to Senate?s concerns that further consolidation in the military-aircraft industry from its current three prime contractors would pose risks to innovation and cost through limited or no competition in contracting for military aircraft and related weapon systems for the Defense Department. Describes that industry, evaluates what is required to maintain the industry at a high level of innovation, assesses industry?s prospects for innovation and competition, and identifies policy options open to the DoD.

Aircraft industry--Military aspects--United States. --- Airplanes, Military--Technological innovations--United States. --- Competition--United States. --- Military aeronautics equipment industry--United States. --- Mechanical Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Aeronautics Engineering & Astronautics --- Airplanes, Military --- Competition --- Military aeronautics equipment industry --- Aircraft industry --- Technological innovations --- Military aspects --- Aeroplanes, Military --- Military airplanes --- War planes --- Warplanes --- Airplane industry --- Aviation industry --- Defense industries --- Aeronautics, Military --- Government aircraft --- Air warfare --- Aerospace industries --- Airplanes --- Equipment and supplies