Looking for Cuts, Pentagon Turns to Jet Fighter Program
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The Pentagon has told the White House and Congress that it plans sharp cuts in the Air Force's program for the F/A-22.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. 's F-35  Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, funded by the United States and  eight other countries, could cost as much as an extra $12  million to $16 million apiece at first if production plans are  curtailed in early years, the general running the project said  Friday.
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An effort to bar the Pentagon from selling surplus parts for the F-14 fighter jet &#151; a plane now flown only by Iran &#151; will be introduced in the House.
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The world's most expensive military project, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is due to take to the skies next week.
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Officials at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a $1 billion contract to an industry team led by Northrop Grumman Corp. to build three robotic reconnaissance aircraft and a computer operating system to help fly them for the Air ...
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The head of the aeronautics division of defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. will retire next year, the company announced Friday. The division makes fighter jets and other planes for the United States and foreign armies.
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FORT WORTH -- Here in Hangar 8, three shifts of Lockheed Martin technicians assemble F-16s, one of the most powerful and widely used fighter jets in history. They work tediously by hand -- bolt by bolt, wire by wire -- turning the plane's belly into a colorful work of industrial art later covered...
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Boeing's bottom line continues to fatten, even as its image tarnishes, thanks in part to the consolidation of the defense industry, which has left the Pentagon with few choices for buying weapons, industry analysts said.
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Lockheed Martinâs $600 billion Joint Strike Fighter program is only now moving off the drawing board and into first flight.
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The Pentagon's costliest acquisition  project, the F-35 Lightning 2 Joint Strike Fighter, safely  completed its first test flight Friday, advancing a $276.5  billion program co-financed by the United States and eight  nations.
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Active-duty U.S. Air Force members interested in learning to fly might be able to defray a fraction of that cost by applying for tuition assistance.
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The Pentagon is drawing up a plan that  would give the U.S. military a more prominent  intelligence-gathering role, including operations targeting  terror groups and those involved in weapons proliferation, The  New York Times reported in its Sunday edition.
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A US company has received more than $1bn in funding to build prototype unmanned fighter aircraft for the American military.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. would bear the brunt of proposed cuts in U.S. weapons purchases totaling $30 billion over the next six years, according to the summary from a Pentagon budget document made available to Reuters Monday. -Reuters
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The United States Air Force will push development of a new fuel to power its bombers and fighters, mixing conventional and nonpetroleum fuels.
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A senior U.S. defense official said Thursday that Washington is considering an appeal from Pakistan for F-16 fighter aircraft &#151; a request that has received a muted response from the United States in previous years.
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Japan's Defence Ministry is seeking a budget to develop its own fighter jets, a report said on Wednesday, after the U.S. blocked foreign sales of Washington's most advanced stealth fighter for security reasons.