Under scrutiny: soaring costs not likely to slow down global hawk.
National Defense › Vol. 90 Nbr. 630, May 2006
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Under scrutiny: soaring costs not likely to slow down global hawk.
The Global Hawk spy aircraft has become--in the eyes of its Defense Department supporters--a shining example of leap-forward technology. The aircraft also has emerged as a cautionary tale for what government auditors consider a high-risk and costly approach to building weapon systems.
At the same time that the Pentagon was enthusiastically endorsing Global Hawk in its quadrennial defense review in February, congressional investigators were questionin...See the full content of this document
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