 B-1B Bomber Conventional Mission Upgrade Program (CMUP) portion of the Pentagon's Department of Operational Test and Evaluation 2003 Annual Report. The Pentagon used to make this report publicly available on the web, but is no longer doing so. POGO has scanned in the reports of eleven of the biggest or most troubled systems. April 16, 2004.
POGO Alert - The B-1 Bomber: Less is More. Congress should not tamper with a cost-saving and sensible plan to cut 33 B-1 Bombers from the Air Force's inventory. September 25, 2003.
POGO Fighting with Failures Fact Sheet: B-1 Bomber - Serious flaws on the B-1 were not discovered until after the bombers were already built. As a result, making the B-1 functional has been very expensive and problematic. April, 2001.
"Much-Maligned B-1 Bomber Proves Hard to Kill," New York Times,  . April, 2001.
POGO Investigative Report Is the Air Force Spending Itself Into Unilateral Disarmament? by U.S. Air Force Colonel Everest E. Riccioni, Ret. As the cost of the B-1 and B-2 skyrocketed, the number of bombers the Air Force could actually purchase declined, leading to the Air Force's inability to buy fighter jets in meaningful numbers. August, 2001.
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