Bureaucratic Politics: Explaining Cancellation of the Navy A-12 Aircraft

Abstract

On January 7 1991, Defense Secretary Richard Cheney terminated a S4 8 billion contract for the A-12 Avenger aircraft, the Navy's top aviation priority. At that time, the aircraft was at least S1 billion over budget, 8,000 pounds overweight, and 18 months behind schedule (Montgomery 44). Nearly S3 billion had been spent on the program and not one aircraft was ever built. Originally projected to cost $57 billion for 620 aircraft, the A-12 was the largest weapons contract cancellation in the history of the Pentagon (Rosenberg 7).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA441355

Entities

People

  • Louise A. Eckhardt

Organizations

  • National War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aircrafts
  • Budgets
  • Cancellation
  • Composite Structures
  • Congress
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Manufacturing
  • National Governments
  • Navy
  • Production
  • Program Management
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.