Word: 2s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon once said it needed only 20 B-2s. ``With 20, I can sustain bomber operations over an extended period of time,'' General John Loh, head of the Air Combat Command, told Congress three years ago. Legislators were skeptical, threatening to pay for only 15, but they were eventually convinced. Today, however, B-2 advocates in the defense industry, on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon are lobbying for 20 more of the Stealth bombers. Seven former Defense Secretaries have urged President Clinton to buy more B- 2s because, they wrote in a Jan. 4 letter...
Northrop claims that it can build the next 20 planes for $11.4 billion, or $570 million each. That is well below the $2.2 billion that each of the first 20 B-2s cost. Even minus their hefty development cost, the first batch cost more than $1 billion a plane. But Northrop's new price tag is dubious, and the bargain questionable. Defense experts expect the final price to balloon. More important, U.S. taxpayers could be buying a flying white elephant with scant strategic value because the key weapons it requires to justify the investment don't exist...
...says CBO's historical analysis can't predict the cost of the next planes because ``we now have a firm, fixed-price offer'' pending at the Pentagon. ``It's based on lean production techniques,'' Crosby says. The 11,000 people working on the first B-2s, for example, would be trimmed to about 3,600 for the second...
...backbone'' of the U.S. nonnuclear bomber force. But four years later, only half the 95 B-1s can drop nonnuclear bombs, and they're limited to a single type of dumb bomb whose primary guidance system is gravity. Thus, after some $65 billion invested in B-1s and B-2s over the past 15 years, the lone U.S. bomber capable of striking with pinpoint weapons is the Eisenhower...
Forms. At the federal level, there is the employer-registration form, which gets you your employer number; the W-4, which counts the employee's deductions; the annual W-2, listing all income earned and taxes withheld; the W-3, summarizing all the W-2s (required, even when there is only one W-2); Form 941, "Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return"; plus forms with each check you write. The District of Columbia requires its own employer- registration form (with, of course, a different employer number); its own D-4 model of the federal W-4; and the ever-popular...