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Troy Meink: “It's not necessarily the age of the aircraft. The age of the…”

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House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget

Published April 30, 2026 | Video Starts at 32:46

Thank you, John. I would just say, Mr. Chairman, in many of the cases, what we've seen is It's not necessarily the age of the aircraft. The age of the aircraft does play into it, but a big part of it is just not having enough parts on the shelf. And the maintainers to just keep those aircraft flying. And there's a big investment to do that. Thank you, Mr. Cuer. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, ranking member. (32:46–32:55)

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Asserts that aircraft maintenance issues are largely due to a lack of parts, not just aircraft age.

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“The fiscal year 2027 President's Budget breaks that pattern with a $338.8 billion request for the DAF, a 34% increase from last year.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 07:46-07:56
“The DAs lean budget over the years has also resulted in a $50 billion facility maintenance backlog.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 08:23-08:30
“This budget takes full advantage of multi year procurement for our most critical munitions, totaling 39,000 weapons of all types by FY33.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 09:05-09:15
“This budget invests in them. That includes a 5 to 7% pay raise for military, larger bonus pools to incentivize high performing civilians…”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 10:33-10:49
“The first fielding [of microreactors] is going to be up in Alaska.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 38:15-38:18
“The FY27 Department of the Air Force Budget request [is being discussed].”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 06:22-06:33
“Advances in microelectronics, adaptive manufacturing, factoring autonomy, AI and more give us a unique opportunity to drive down cost and…”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 06:56-07:08
“The FY27 budget increases our foundational readiness investments by 34%, providing the jump needed to truly recover.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 08:06-08:14
“The FY27 budget requests roughly doubles investments in both MILCON and facilities.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 08:37-08:44
“The DAF is currently engaged in the broadest program of modernization in its history.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 09:32-09:37
“The FY27 request accelerates those successes and applies lessons learned from them across the board.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 09:50-09:57
“Any reduction on either side [mandatory or discretionary] will have significant consequences.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 22:53-23:02
“The nuclear transmission is always going to be one of our primary missions.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 26:46-26:51
“Nuclear deterrence is a no fail mission.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 26:59-27:02
“The NC3 that sits in the space side... mission sits in both parts of the Department of the Air Force.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 27:04-27:10
“The new weapon systems, F47 as we feel the upgraded versions of F35, are critically important to maintain match with the Chinese and other…”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 27:11-27:18
“We've finished some of the analysis on what that next generation system is going to look like.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 29:36-29:41
“We are extending the C5s, I believe we're now looking at, out through 2040 on the C5s.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 29:44-29:52
“At that point, we intend to start replenishing those aircraft first, and then following that, we will go into replenishment of the C17s.”
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“We believe by June of this year we will have kind of mediated and come to agreement on the number of issues that are still outstanding [with…”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 36:22-36:37
“The long pole there is going to be not just the finish, the technical aspect, because there is some technical work that has to be done.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 38:23-38:31
“The biggest long pole, aside from the technical, is just going to be in the negotiation with our overseas allies and partners on getting the…”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 38:47-39:01
“Our time schedule for the Kona space systems is probably a much higher, more accurate, lower risk schedule than some of the overseas ones.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 39:20-39:32
“The E7 is the replacement for the E3, and you're right, much more capable system.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 45:20-45:28
“We have two of the rapid prototype eight jets on contract and funded.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 45:32-45:38
“We have contracts in place for five more EMD platforms.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 45:37-45:41
“The Department is committing to work with you to figure out how to fund the 27 budget for adjust the 27 budget submission to fund the E7 and…”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 45:41-45:56
“It's a priority. It's a great platform, carry a lot of weapons.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 47:26-47:30
“We're in the process of working closely with Boeing.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 47:31-47:34
“The contractor actually spent last Thursday all day out with him going through the details on the program on how we're going to ramp…”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 47:33-47:42
“They're supposed to come back with that plan in about 30 days.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 47:47-47:50
“I'm confident that we will ramp production exactly what month next year that's going to happen.”
House Hearing on the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force FY 2027 Budget | Uploaded April 30, 2026 | 47:50-47:57