Biggest issue is does anyone actually expect Congress not to force the E-7 on the Air Force?
SECDEF’s moronic arguments about Space based ISR making the Airborne AWACS irrelevant being full of holes, and the E-2 is a massive jump backwards in capability over even the E-3 Sentry, as it’s slow, with a smaller operational radius, and less time on station due to lack of crew redundancies (even if the E-2D can AAR the crew number don’t support significantly longer operational time). Plus the radars and other sensors are significantly worse then the E-7