F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. Updated December 22, 2009
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. Updated December 22, 2009
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The administration's proposed FY2010 defense budget requested about $10.4 billion in research and development and procurement funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. This would fund the procurement of 10 F- 35As for the Air Force, 16 F-35Bs for the Marine Corps, and four F-35Cs for the Navy. The administration's proposed FY2010 defense budget also proposed terminating the F-35 alternate engine program, which is intended to develop the General Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 engine as an alternative to the Pratt and Whitney F135 engine that currently powers the F-35. The Obama administration opposes further funding for the alternate engine program and has threatened to veto the FY2010 defense authorization or appropriation bill if either 'would seriously disrupt' the F-35 program. The F-35 alternate engine program has emerged as a major item of debate on the FY2010 defense budget.
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F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. Updated December 22, 2009
2009
130 pages
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Aircraft , Business & Economics , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Congress , Military procurement , Budgets , Fighter aircraft , Attack aircraft , Engines , Legislation , Military budgets , Aircraft engines , Marine corps , Air force , Costs , F-35 aircraft , Funding , F136 engines , Joint strike fighters , Alternate engine program , F135 engines