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Senate Panel Cuts F-35, JLTV In $26 Billion Hit To DoD Plan

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

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A Senate panel wants to slash funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program and kill a new combat vehicle effort as part of $26 billion in cuts to the Pentagon’s budget request. The Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee’s (SAC-D) fiscal year 2012 defense appropriations bill has a price tag of $513 billion, or $526 billion when military-construction funding is included. Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) during a bill-writing markup session yesterday detailed several cuts to the Pentagon spending plan President Barack Obama…

Space

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Congress

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Pentagon

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Congress

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