The Government Accountability Office recommended the Pentagon slow a more than $2 billion program to purchase armed, overwatch aircraft for U.S. Special Operations Command until defense officials can better determine how many of the two-man planes are needed.
The Defense Department should hold off on buying dozens of small, fixed-wing aircraft that U.S. Special Operations Command says would be used for close air support and intelligence-gathering missions in austere environments like Africa, the Government Accountability Office said.