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Inouye Casts Doubt On F-35 Engine Funding

Julie Samuel

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

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A senior senator signaled yesterday he is pessimistic about his chamber funding the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine, but pledged to weigh a plan for the contractor to use its own money to continue developing it. Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) told Defense Daily he remains a supporter of the second engine, developed by General Electric [GE] and Rolls-Royce. “Yes, if we get the money,” he said yesterday on Capitol Hill. Yet he said he does…

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