The Chinese military has enormous stress about U.S. space plans at large. There is a debate about what they should do.
The one thing you don't want to happen is that you start talking about common systems, for example, and you get the gold-plated toilet out the other end.
I don't think Congress is going to go for such big increases in troubled programs unless and until the Air Force can prove that it has got a handle on the problems with acquisition and oversight of contractors.
It's really the first time you've seen the Republican-led Congress acknowledge that these issues require public scrutiny.
DoD ought not to be thinking about how to sell Congress, but instead how to fix the program.
If you bought a 10-year leasing contract, you would pay less per transaction than in a bidding war.
I'm not sure that is possible right now.
It's going to be pretty hard without a solid, believable acquisition approach to space radar, and to FIA for that matter, for Congress to actually be willing to go along.
