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Air Force

House Appropriators Largely Back F-35

Julie Samuel

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

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Pentagon budget writers in the House want to spare the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program from major changes, proposing only modest cuts to the program and including no commentary on it in its closely-read report on the defense budget. The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) is poised to approve a fiscal year 2013 defense appropriations bill today that heeds the Pentagon’s request to buy 29 F-35s from Lockheed Martin [LMT]. The HAC Defense subcommittee (HAC-D) last week approved legislation that pares…

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