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Air Force

House Panel Boosts Air Force F-35s, Directs Program to Submit Answers on ALIS Support Costs

Frank Wolfe

Friday, July 10th, 2020

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House Panel Boosts Air Force F-35s, Directs Program to Submit Answers on ALIS Support Costs

In March, Lockheed Martin said that it delivered its 500th F-35, an Air Force F-35A, to the Burlington Air National Guard Base in Vermont (Lockheed Martin Photo)

For fiscal 2021, the House Appropriations Committee's defense panel advises funding 60 Air Force F-35A Lightning fighters by Lockheed Martin [LMT], 12 aircraft and nearly $1.2 billion above the Air Force budget request. The subcommittee noted in its report on the bill that the Pentagon has received $394 million for the Automatic Logistics Information System (ALIS) for the three F-35 variants through this fiscal year and that the DoD request for ALIS is $59.4 million in fiscal 2021, about $17.5…

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