The Cost of Restoring the C-5 Goes Upward

摘要

The cost of the program to re-engine and upgrade the C-5 Galaxy has breached the 15 percent overrun level, mandating a notice to Congress, and throwing the program's future into question, USAF reported in September.rnThe service pegged the cost of the Reliability Enhancement and Re-Engin-ing Program, or RERP, at $146.7 million per aircraft, for a program cost of $117.5 billion—roughly $5 billion more than the service had planned to spend on it. Some worst-case estimates put the cost at more than $20 billion. The cost increase constituted a Nunn-McCurdy breach, which requires the Air Force to notify Congress and either certify that the program is still required or explain how it will meet the need some other way.