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Defense News February 1, 2010 JSF To Get Extra $314B Over 5 Years By JOHN REED How much will it actually cost to build and buy each F-35 fighter jet? DoD acquisition chief Ashton Carter wants to know, and is set to order a bottom-up review of the program and its costs, according to the program's manager, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. David Heinz. In the meantime, the Pentagon's 2011 budget request will add $314 billion to the F-35 Lightning II program over five years, as was recommended by DoD's Joint Estimating Team (JET) late last year. .... In the meantime, "this next year between FY-10 and 11, we know we've got 30 airplanes," said Heinz. Heinz says that none of the services are considering cutting their F-35 purchases. In January, a leaked Navy briefing compared the cost of flying F/A-18s and AV-8Bs in 2008 to operating the F-35 in 2029. That prompted speculation that the Navy was gunning to trim its order. Navy officials later said the analysis was done to better estimate the plane's total ownership costs. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: rwroz...@yahoo.com or stopnato-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: arch...@mail-archive.com EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: antinato-unsubscr...@topica.com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
