The aircraft procured for the Marine MLR will be inadequate for the joint services missions the V-22 was designed to perform, thereby ensuring that expensive new development and acquisition programs will have to be undertaken to meet these other requirements.

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Jeremiah reported in a 14 June memo to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition that the Council had, in effect, acted with extreme prejudice on the idea of restoring the V-22 as a joint program.

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He also ordered the Joint Vertical Aircraft Road Map Task Force to assess the V-22 production profile alternatives against the department's overall investment in the rotary wing industrial sector and the eventual needs to replace and or refurbish aging aircraft.

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