This isn't that difficult and virtually painless. There is an ongoing procedure within the military infrastructure and it needs to be expanded to international deployment as well.Introduction to BRAC (click here)
Base realignment and closure (BRAC) is the process that DoD uses to reorganize its installation infrastructure to more efficiently and effectively support its forces, increase operational readiness, and facilitate new ways of doing business. The BRAC process enables DoD to better match existing facilities to its changing military requirements.
Congress authorized the first BRAC Round in 1988 (BRAC I). Designed to promote modernization, reduce operating costs, and eliminate excess military infrastructure, this first round focused on closing large-scale operations and redefined how DoD conducted its everyday operations....
Additionally, the needs of the State Department, where the military can address security, needs an independent study commission. There is no reason for duplicity or voids within the security needs of those deployed abroad.
The last round of BRAC was in 2005. Reconvene the commission and get the sequester over with. This is ridiculous. The USA military is costing the USA fiscal hardship and to think they can't react to it with troops deployed home is outrageous.
Military hardware manufacturers and current contracts also need to be evaluated for the continuation of their contracts in the reality of today's military. Overruns that have to be made past an understandable COST OF PRODUCTION analysis are out of the question.
We don't build it simply because it was started! If the military puts the USA into fiscal bankruptcy what good is it?
Research and development of any aircraft cannot run in the trillions. That is completely out of the question.
The R&D of such aircraft has to go to the engineers at NASA who can best design aircraft to withstand stress and applications of national security.
Sometimes I think NASA forgets they are part of the aeronautics of this country. I do believe its has roots there. Design and engineering of specifications to manufacture should be perfected in NASA's drawing rooms and labs. New materials that work for the benefit of the USA National Security are a place of mastery at NASA. They did have the tiles that made the Shuttle possible.
NASA houses some of the best engineers this country has to offer; putting together a viable aircraft to protect this country is child's play to them. When the USA enlists the private sector to produce state of the art aircraft it should simply be a matter of getting BIDS on plans already carved in stone!
If NASA can assemble an aircraft to survive a flight in the tail of a comet and then disengage to return home with acquired information, it can do anything.
