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Air Force

DoD To Meet With Industry About 2nd Engine Self-Funding Plan

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

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Pentagon officials plan to meet with the contractor building the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine about its proposal to self-fund the embattled program, Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter said yesterday. Carter, appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) as it weighs his nomination to be deputy secretary of defense, told second-engine supporter Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) that he still has “real concerns about that (self-funding) proposal based on what I have heard so far.” Yet he said current Deputy…

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