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Fri Feb 29th, 2008 | AFPN

WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- The Air Force's top two leaders testified before the House Armed Services Committee about the service's budget request for fiscal 2009 Feb. 27 in Washington.
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Tue Feb 5th, 2008 | Voice of America

President Bush's budget for next year, sent to the Congress for debate on Monday, includes more than half a trillion dollars in basic defense spending, and another $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and related operations, for about half of the year. VOA's Al Pessin reports from t...
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Fri Aug 25th, 2006 | Reuters

Internal Navy budget documents obtained by Reuters indicate significant cuts or delays in both the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey.
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Fri Jun 23rd, 2006 | dfw.com

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate passed a $517.7 billion defense spending measure Thursday that would delay initial production of the first F-35 joint strike fighters by a year while restoring a backup engine for the plane that the Pentagon wanted to kill.
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Tue May 23rd, 2006 | washingtonpost.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional investigators said on Monday the Pentagon's controversial decision to cancel a $2.4 billion second engine for the radar-evading, supersonic Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was based on "insufficient cost, savings and performance data."