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Air Force

SASC OKs Policy Bill With F-35, Acquisition Changes

Julie Samuel

Monday, June 20th, 2011

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The Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) Pentagon policy bill calls for clamping down on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter cost increases, banning funds for the aircraft’s alternate engine, and maintaining the M1 tank production line. The panel’s version of the fiscal year 2012 defense authorization bill, which it approved unanimously in closed session last Thursday night, cuts $6.4 billion from the Pentagon’s $671 billion base and war budget proposals and makes a raft of acquisition-policy changes, according to details it released…

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