Why was the F-35 engine dropped from the Senate bill for the Joint strike fighter?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday handed President Barack Obama another victory on defense spending when it stripped funding for an alternate fighter-jet engine the Pentagon has said it does not want. On a voice vote, the Senate removed $439 million to develop the second engine for Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from a $680 billion defense bill. The Senate later passed the bill, which sets military spending priorities, by a vote of 87 to 7. The vote is a blow to General Electric Co and Rolls-Royce Group PLC, which had been developing the engine before Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Congress to stop funding it earlier this year. The vote does not necessarily kill the program as two committees in the House of Representatives have supported it. The House and Senate must resolve any differences they have in a final military defense bill before they can send it to Obama to sign into law. “The funding battle … is far from over,” GE official Rick Ken
The U.S. Senate on Thursday handed President Barack Obama another victory on defense spending when it stripped funding for an alternate fighter-jet engine the Pentagon has said it does not want. On a voice vote, the Senate removed $439 million to develop the second engine for Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from a $680 billion defense bill. The Senate later passed the bill, which sets military spending priorities, by a vote of 87 to 7. The vote is a blow to General Electric Co and Rolls-Royce Group PLC, which had been developing the engine before Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Congress to stop funding it earlier this year. The vote does not necessarily kill the program as two committees in the House of Representatives have supported it. The House and Senate must resolve any differences they have in a final military defense bill before they can send it to Obama to sign into law. “The funding battle … is far from over,” GE official Rick Kennedy said in an e-mail
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday handed President Barack Obama another victory on defense spending when it stripped funding for an alternate fighter-jet engine the Pentagon has said it does not want. On a voice vote, the Senate removed $439 million to develop the second engine for Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from a $680 billion defense bill. The Senate later passed the bill, which sets military spending priorities, by a vote of 87 to 7. The vote is a blow to General Electric Co and Rolls-Royce Group PLC, which had been developing the engine before Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Congress to stop funding it earlier this year. The vote does not necessarily kill the program as two committees in the House of Representatives have supported it. The House and Senate must resolve any differences they have in a final military defense bill before they can send it to Obama to sign into law. “The funding battle … is far from over,” GE official Rick Ken
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Thursday handed President Barack Obama another victory on defense spending when it stripped funding for an alternate fighter-jet engine the Pentagon has said it does not want. On a voice vote, the Senate removed $439 million to develop the second engine for Lockheed Martin Corp’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from a $680 billion defense bill. The Senate later passed the bill, which sets military spending priorities, by a vote of 87 to 7. The vote is a blow to General Electric Co and Rolls-Royce Group PLC, which had been developing the engine before Defense Secretary Robert Gates asked Congress to stop funding it earlier this year.
