The B-21 stealth bomber’s first mission: evading Pentagon red tape

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The B-21 stealth bomber’s first mission: evading Pentagon red tape
By Stephen Losey
 Tuesday, Jan 10
Photo by: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain was unhappy.

The Republican from Arizona summoned the Air Force’s top leaders to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee in early March 2016, a little more than four months after the service awarded Northrop Grumman a much-watched deal of undisclosed value to build the next stealth bomber.

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