By Emelie Rutherford The first signs of how Congress wants to tweak the Pentagon's budget proposal emerged yesterday, when the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) unveiled plans to potentially revive the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's alternate engine, limit amphibious-vehicle spending, and boost missile-defense funding. The HASC subcommittees today will start marking up portions of the policy-setting defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2012, which starts Oct. 1. It unveiled most of its subcommittee's proposed pieces of legislation yesterday. The Tactical…
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