Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates not only canceled the Air Force's Combat Search and Rescue Replacement Vehicle, dubbed CSAR-X, in April, he also questioned the merits of USAF's leading role in the combat search and rescue mission. Citing a "troubled acquisition history," Gates announced his decision to terminate the CSAR-X program, which sought to field the successor to the elderly HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, during an April 6 Pentagon press conference on the Department of Defense's Fiscal 2010 budget proposal. Before Gates' announcement, the Air Force was poised to award the CSAR-X contract, believing that it had resolved the issues that had derailed the original source selection in November 2006.
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机译：国防部长罗伯特·盖茨（Robert M. Gates）不仅在4月取消了被称为CSAR-X的空军战斗搜索和救援替换车，还对美国空军在战斗搜索和救援任务中发挥领导作用的优点提出了质疑。五角大楼在美国国防部2010财年4月6日的新闻发布会上，盖茨援引“陷入困境的收购历史”，宣布决定终止CSAR-X计划，该计划试图将旧式HH-60G铺路鹰直升机的后继飞机交付使用预算提案。在盖茨宣布之前，美国空军已准备好授予CSAR-X合同，认为它已经解决了导致2006年11月最初的来源选择出轨的问题。
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