Joint Strike Fighter Engine Fight Continues

Posted on: Feb. 15th, 2006 || Source: thehill.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

General Electric and Britain's Rolls-Royce are stepping up their fight on Capitol Hill to save a multibillion-dollar engine program President Bush scrapped from his 2007 budget request.

Several members of Congress are poised to grill the Pentagon on the decision to jettison the program.

For Rolls-Royce and General Electric, the stakes are high in the battle to save the alternate-engine program for the multinational Joint Strike Fighter (JSF): Even though they will not suffer significant short-term financial losses, the two companies could be effectively shut out of the largest fighter-jet market for the next 40 years, several defense industry sources said.

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