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Matt Donovan: USAF to Spend $2B Bomber Fund Request on Software Devt, Recruitment


Matt Donovan, Air Force undersecretary, has said the service™s $2 billion funding request for the B-21 bomber aircraft program for fiscal year 2018 would be spent on software development and staffing efforts at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Bloomberg Technology reported Wednesday.

The military branch will also allocate part of the requested funds to the production of engineering drawings for the aircraft™s œclean-sheet design, Donovan said in a Tuesday interview.

He noted that Northrop™s work on the bomber is œgenerally on track and œwithin the windows of expected progress that we™ve expected at this point, the report added.

The Air Force selected Northrop in October 2015 for the potential $80 billion contract to build at least 100 B-21 units.

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