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[b]Aerospace Daily & Defense Report [/b]
  
-Marine Corps Should Be Making V-22s Faster, Commandant Says
Because of budget limitations, the U.S. Marine Corps is not producing
V-22 Osprey aircraft at a fast enough rate to meet its desired goal of
transitioning two squadrons of aging CH-46 and CH-53E helicopters into
V-22 squadrons each year, according to Assistant Commandant Gen. Robert
Magnus.

-The Marines plan to buy 360 V-22s total. "I've seen nothing to indicate
that the number 360 is wrong," Magnus said. "What I can tell you is the
rate at which we are buying them in the FYDP [five-year defense plan] is
wrong. It's low."

-The V-22 program was authorized to enter full-rate production last year,
lifting a minimum sustaining production rate cap of 11 aircraft annually
that was imposed after the aircraft experienced two fatal accidents in
2000. Production is slated to ramp up to 16 aircraft in fiscal 2007 and
24 in FY '08.

-"Full-rate is going to be full rate at the rate that is affordable,"
Magnus said during a Defense Writers Group breakfast in Washington April
6. Transitioning CH-46 and CH-53E squadrons at the rate of two squadrons
a year would require about 30 V-22s to be produced annually. "Is 30
aircraft a year in the president's budget right now? No, it's not,"
Magnus said.

-The Bush administration recently requested supplemental funding for
another three V-22s on top of those covered in the full budget request
(DAILY, April 5).

-Total production numbers for the V-22 could be at risk, according to
program officials, because of a recent decision to trim the program's
budget to keep it in line with a recent lifecycle cost estimate by the
Pentagon's Cost Analysis Improvement Group (CAIG), which determined that
the program was being overfunded.
Magnus acknowledged the March 27 Class-A mishap that occurred in New
River, N.C., when a V-22 undergoing a post maintenance checkout
inadvertently took off and crashed due to a fault in its Full Authority
Digital Engine Control (FADEC) system. Neither pilot was injured (DAILY,
April 6).

-Assistant Navy Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition
Delores Etter "did, I thought, a great job of promptly asking the right
questions and jumping on this, because we've isolated this to what may
be a software problem," Magnus said.

--Jefferson Morris

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