F/A-18E/F SUPER HORNET BLOCK II

MULTI-YEAR PROCUREMENT

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 NAVAL CARRIER AVIATION FLEXIBLE TIMELY RESPONSE

The Nation is Facing a Wide Range Of Dangerous and Increasingly Complex Threats
These complex threats require flexible multi-role systems, and demand sufficient numbers to address concurrent scenarios

The Characteristics Of Conflicts Are Changing As Well,

Becoming More Asymmetrical and Geographically Diverse
As a result, the Nation continues to depend on the Navy as “first responders” for conflicts
which require speed and flexibility in execution

Aircraft Carriers Provide Critical Sovereign Basing

For Forward Deployed Forces Addressing Complex Threats
Timely and flexible response requires keeping carriers at sea US Military Involvement Since 1990

Tactical Aviation Provides the Critical Means

To Exercise The Nation’s Carrier Power

The complex nature of emerging threats requires a versatile

tactical aviation platform.
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NAVY TACTICAL AVIATION LOOMING SHORTFALL

Naval aviation faces an impending TACAIR shortfall due to

• Current Hornet service life limits: war time usage greater than plan
• Inventory reductions: procurement decisions over past 15 years
• Delays in other tactical aircraft programs: Navy F-35C model slips
600
Up to 4 carriers without
500
aircraft for 15 years
Operational Shortfall
400

300

F/A-18 -240
200

100

F-35

0
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

Inventory gap will cause operational warfighting shortfall

This Navy strike fighter shortfall is rapid and dramatic,

and will exceed 240 aircraft
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F/A-18E/F SUPER HORNET BLOCK II DELIVERING CAPABILITY

The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block II delivers:

• Advanced multi-role capabilities today
• The world’s most capable AESA radar
• Sensor integration
• Enhanced survivability

The Super Hornet - Unprecedented Multi-Mission War Fighting Capabilities

Cruise Missile Fighter Close Air All-Weather Air Defense Electronic

Maritime
Defense Escort Support Attack Suppression Attack
Tactical Air Precision Information
Recon
Tanker Superiority Attack Operations

The Super Hornet with its advanced sensors and targeting capabilities, connectivity
paths, and precision weapons, has already started to transform the way the Navy fights.

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A MODEL DEFENSE PROCUREMENT PROGRAM

The F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet program is a model for defense acquisition
On budget, ahead of schedule, and delivering next generation capabilities today

• First Multi-Year Procurement – $700M savings

• Second Multi-Year Procurement –$1B savings
Super Hornet Block II
• Third Multi-Year Procurement – Est. $700M savings
Evolved Capabilities
• State of the Art Sensors
Aircraft Unit Flyaway Price

• Active Electronically Scanned

Array (AESA) Radar
• Sensor Integration
• Enhanced Survivability
• Electronic Attack
• Advanced Communications
• Distributed Targeting
• Advanced Weapons
• Integration Across the Joint
Force
MYP III:
• Open Architecture
LRIP I MYP I MYP II 10 % savings
• Operational Flexibility
1997-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010-2014

Advanced capabilities with a history of savings

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THE ONLY AFFORDABLE AND CAPABLE SOLUTION
TO THE STRIKE FIGHTER SHORTFALL

Multi-Year Procurement (MYP) Of Super Hornets

 The Navy is facing a tactical aviation shortfall and needs to purchase additional Super Hornets
through a cost-saving Multi-Year Procurement that saves taxpayers money
 The Super Hornet Block II is a highly capable aircraft that provides an affordable and low-risk
solution to meet the Navy’s tactical aircraft needs through 2025
 The F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet program is a model for defense acquisition - on budget and on time
 The Super Hornet industrial base is a national asset

Super Hornet program - on time, on budget, meets all requirements

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RISK MITIGATION THE INDUSTRIAL BASE

Current DoD planning closes the Super Hornet Block II production line years
before equivalent aircraft capability or production capacity is available.

A Super Hornet multi-year: 54

1 2 9
43
4
10 25

• Protects over 100,000 jobs 9 1 13

37
160
102

• Prevents reduction to single fighter house 5

9
5 6
113 18
63
67
63
11

• Mitigates supplier industrial impact

17 66
662 41 191 12
6 6
29 28
• Manages risk, maintains expertise 24 4
32
10 2 18

• Provides linkage to future programs 5 20 28

93 1
Less than 20 109
20 to 49
50 - above

1,900 companies in 46 states

Action must be taken in the upcoming budget to address the TACAIR shortfall.

Without capacity to overcome a gap, the nation loses the ability

to respond to inventory uncertainties
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 SOLUTIONS NAVY TACAIR SHORTFALL

Situation
– Navy not requesting a multi-year or additional aircraft at this time
– SECDEF reducing Super Hornet 2010 procurement from 40 to 31 aircraft (E/F/G)
– Navy’s newest TACAIR shortfall projection was 243 aircraft (before latest cut)
• This 243 number has been shared with some congressional staffers
– SECDEF’s budget does not address the TACAIR shortfall
– SECDEF has unilaterally made the POM10 budget decisions and Services unable or
unwilling to challenge (exampled by the USAF change in position on F-22)
– SECDEF has not answered Congress on MYPIII savings as directed by 2009 NDAA

F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block II

"MYP III . . . Right for our Navy, Right for our Nation, Right Now"

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SOLUTIONS NAVY TACAIR SHORTFALL

Reaching Out to Congress For Help, Is Key!

• Must raise the issue with Congressional Members that the
strike fighter shortfall is critical to national security and
additional Super Hornets will address this risk
• Congress must act this year to address the TACAIR
shortfall, if the CNO and the SECDEF will not
• Congress can add additional Super Hornets in the 2009
Supplemental and the 2010 budget to start to address the
shortfall
• A third multi-year of Super Hornets is the best solution for
the strike fighter shortfall and the nation

F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block II

"MYP III . . . Right for our Navy, Right for our Nation, Right Now"

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