DTN News: Second Engine For F-35 Gets Boost In Congress 
Source: DTN News / Reuters
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON, - March 12, 2010: The head of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said he was convinced that Congress should keep funding an alternate, interchangeable engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, despite Defense Department efforts to kill it on cost grounds.
Lawmakers defied a presidential veto threat to fund the second engine built by General Electric Co (
GE.N) and Rolls Royce (
RR.L) last year.
A recent Pentagon analysis said it would cost $2.9 billion over six years to complete work on the engine, which would compete with one built by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp (
UTX.N), for a projected $100 billion. (Reporting by
Jim Wolf, editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
Source: DTN News / Reuters
(NSI News Source Info) WASHINGTON, - March 12, 2010: The head of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee said he was convinced that Congress should keep funding an alternate, interchangeable engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, despite Defense Department efforts to kill it on cost grounds.
Lawmakers defied a presidential veto threat to fund the second engine built by General Electric Co (GE.N) and Rolls Royce (RR.L) last year.
A recent Pentagon analysis said it would cost $2.9 billion over six years to complete work on the engine, which would compete with one built by Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp (UTX.N), for a projected $100 billion. (Reporting by Jim Wolf, editing by Leslie Gevirtz)
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