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FA-22 Fighter Aircraft
Related Resources (government documents and letters)
POGO Files
POGO Salutes Landmark F-22 Vote in Senate
July 21, 2009
Vote Yes on Levin-McCain Amendment to Strip F-22s; Adding F-22s is Choosing Corrupt System Over National Security
July 13, 2009
POGO Letter to Senate Leadership Expressing Serious Concern Over F-22 Solicitation Request
July 9, 2009
POGO and Taxpayers for Common Sense Call on Senate to Cut F-22 from Defense Authorization Act
July 8, 2009
High-Maintenance F-22 Stealth Features Keeping It in the Shop
February 20, 2009
Preying On The Taxpayer: The F-22A Raptor In June, the Senate authorized the government to purchase 20 F-22A Raptor fighter jets each year for 2008, 2009, and 2010 using a multiyear procurement (MYP) strategy. If Lockheed, the aircraft's manufacturer is able to secure MYP status, it would essentially lock the government into buying the 60 additional troubled F-22A's and minimize the possibility that the program could suffer further funding cuts. An MYP would also result in the American taxpayers paying Lockheed $1 billion more than they would under the normal annual procurement process.
July 25, 2006
Portions of the Pentagon's Department of Operational Test and Evaluation 2003 Annual Report
April 16, 2004
Fighting with Failures Series: Case Studies of How the Pentagon Buys Weapons; F/A-22 Raptor
March 15, 2004
POGO letter to the Office of Management and Budget regarding the F/A-22 Raptor and Comanche Helicopter programs
February 10, 2004
POGO Supports OMB Request for F/A-22 and Comanche Program Studies
February 10, 2004
Is the Air Force Spending Itself into Unilateral Disarmament? With its ever increasing commitment to complex, expensive, high-tech weapons and willingness to advance the cause of defense contractors, the Pentagon is on a path that will actually degrade U.S. fighting forces. For example, at the start of the cold war, America's long-range bombing fleet consisted of 1,380 B-47s and 680 B-52s. Those bombers have declined significantly in number since the advent of fewer and more expensive bombers like the B-1B and B-2 Spirit.
August 2, 2001
The U.S. military budget is fast approaching cold war spending levels, and the cost of developing, testing and procuring new military aircraft is spinning out of control. As the per copy cost of military aircraft rises, older aircraft are not being replaced on a one-to-one basis. The cause for concern: The number of aircraft in the U.S. fleet is declining so fast that the Air Force’s control of the skies could be threatened in the future.
Will We Ever Fly Before We Buy? F-22 Doesn't Meet Basic Testing Criteria The Pentagon is rushing to begin production of the F-22 fighter without first meeting all testing requirements imposed by Congress. This report exposes the plan to recommend releasing $2.1 billion for 10 F-22 fighters even though the aircraft has not met as many as five out of 11 testing criteria required to be met before funding is released. This first wave of the production process, known as low-rate initial production, is expected despite Congress' clear directive in the defense budget bills of 2000 and 2001 that F-22 production funding only be released if all 11 testing criteria are met. The Pentagon should not only adhere to these very minimal testing criteria before going into production, it should set a higher standard requiring that all operational testing be completed, particularly of the avionics (the eyes, ears and brain of the plane) prior to costly buys of new aircraft like the F-22. No greater lesson than this was learned from the "buy before fly" B-1 and B-2 bomber fiascos.
January 2, 2001
The F-22 Program: Fact Versus Fiction A report criticizing the F-22 aircraft by legendary aircraft designer and retired Air Force Col. Everest E. Riccioni
August 10, 2000
Related Resources
Gates and Mullen: More F-22s Will Threaten Our National Defense
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen,
July 13, 2009
President Obama's Letter Promising to Veto Bill with Additional F-22's
President Barack Obama, The White House
July 13, 2009
General Norton Schwartz and Secretary of Air Force Michael Donley Letter to Senator McCain opposing F-22 production
Norton A. Schwartz, General, USAF, Chief of Staff and Michael B. Donley, Secretary of the Air Force,
July 13, 2009
POGO in the News
Anti-Freeze in Pilots' Blood Baffles Air Force, Adam Clark Estes, The Atlantic, July 27, 2011
Sources: Toxins in cockpit grounded F-22s, Dave Majumdar, Air Force Times, July 25, 2011
Pentagon cost-cutting drive faces uphill battle, By Andrea Shalal-Esa (Reuters), FoxBuisness.com, September 14, 2010
House Reverses Itself, Votes To Kill F-22 Buy, By Wlliam Matthews, Defense News, July 31, 2009
The F-22 Vote and the Future of Pentagon Spending, By William Hartung , Talking Points Memo, July 28, 2009
F-22 funding cut to hurt North Berwick firm; Loss of fighter jet program endangers hundreds of local jobs, By Jason Claffey , Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH, July 22, 2009
The Progress Report: A Victory For Sensible Defense, By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ian Millhiser and Nate Carlile, The Huffington Post; The Progress Report is the daily policy newsletter of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, July 22, 2009
President wins on defense spending; With prodding, Senate halts order for F-22 jets, By Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe, July 22, 2009
Key Vote Proves White House & Gates Serious About Reform, By James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly/On-line, July 22, 2009
F-22 Gets Through House Committee, May Face Obstacle On Floor, By William Matthews , DefenseNews.com , July 22, 2009
F-22 Soars on Twitter After Senate Vote, By Noah Shachtman, Wired.com Danger Room, July 21, 2009
Defense Contractors Lobby for More F-22s; Obama Threatens Veto, By Sabil Kapur, Huffington Post, July 16, 2009
F-22 Vote Temporarily Set Aside As Obama Keeps Two Jet Issues On Veto List, By Emelie Rutherford, Defense Daily, (By subscription only), July 16, 2009
F-22 Bill Stalls In Senate; Gates Aids Jet's Foes, By William Matthews, Defense News.com, July 15, 2009
Senate F-22 Foes Outnumbered But Still Fighting, By William Matthews, Defense News, July 14, 2009
Obama's veto threat over F-22 divides Dems, By Roxana Tiron , The Hill.com, July 14, 2009
Despite Obama, Senate Momentum Builds for Stealth Jets, By Noah Shachtman, Wired/Danger Room, July 13, 2009
A dog fight Obama seems bound to lose, By Bryan Bender, Boston Globe, July 12, 2009
Fighter jet program fuels tension between GOP Senators, By Roxanne Trion, The Hill, July 6, 2009
An Era Begins Closing On F-22, By Bob O’Harrow, The Washington Post - Government Inc., April 14, 2009
Arms plan has pain, some gain for N.E., By Bryan Bender and Todd Wallack , The Boston Globe, April 7, 2009
Why The Heat Is On Robert Gates Over The Pentagon's Big-Ticket Weapons, By Anna Mulrine, U.S. News & World Report (USNews.com), March 25, 2009
Defense Contractors Gird for Fight, By Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent, March 5, 2009
Military Contractors Await Details of Obama’s Budget, By Christopher Drew, New York Times/Business, February 27, 2009
Fighter Jet or Fighter Job? , With Chris Lawrence, CNN, February 26, 2009
Raptor in dogfight for its future, By Ken Dilanian and Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, February 25, 2009
Critics say DoD spending more, getting less, By Antonie Boessenkool, Air Force News, February 20, 2009
Critics say DoD spending more, getting less, By Antonie Boessenkool, Army Times, February 20, 2009
F-22 Raptor plagued by stealth maintenance woes, , Congress Daily On-line, February 20, 2009
Nonprofit raises issue with pick for intelligence, by Matthew Cella, The Washington Times, January 9, 2009
Bailout Leaves Weapons Programs Up in the Air, By Richard Burnett, Orlando Sentinel, December 1, 2008
Decade-old Design Flaw Puts Fighter in Shop: Raptor's makers knew long ago of a corrosion issue that's costing millions to fix at Hill, by Matthew D. LaPlante, The Salt Lake Tribune, October 21, 2007
Edo director resigns amid conflict-of-interest charges, By James Bernstein, Newsday, August 2, 2006
Pentagon reviews conflict-of-interest accusation, By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters, July 31, 2006
