
The head of a Senate panel that will quiz Pentagon leaders on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter on Wednesday said he wants to air developments with the program that he learned in private briefings. Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee (SAC-D) Chairman Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) said no specific scandal or new revelation prompted him to call the hearing on the multi-service, multi-nation fighter jet program currently pegged to cost $391 billion. Photo by Lockheed Martin “I have met with the service branches as…