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Crs Report for Congress: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Jsf) Program: Background and Issues for Congress: July 24, 2009 - Rl30563

Crs Report for Congress: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Jsf) Program: Background and Issues for Congress: July 24, 2009 - Rl30563

O'Rourke, Ronald
Congressional Research Service the Libr

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General Political Science

ISBN10: 1293246123
ISBN13: 9781293246122
Publisher: Bibliogov
Published: Nov 4 2013
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), also called the Lighting II, is a new strike fighter being procured in different versions by the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy. The F-35 program is the Department of Defenses (DODs) largest weapon procurement program in terms of total estimated acquisition cost. Current DOD plans call for acquiring a total of 2,456 JSFs for the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy at an estimated total acquisition cost (as of December 31, 2007) of about $246 billion in constant (i.e., inflation-adjusted) FY2009 dollars. Procurement of F-35s began in FY2007. Hundreds of additional F-35s are to be purchased by several U.S. allies. The administrations proposed FY2010 defense budget requests a total of about $10.4 billion in Air Force and Navy research and development funding and procurement funding for the F-35 program, including about $3.6 billion in Air Force and Navy research and development funding and about $6.8 billion in Air Force and Navy procurement funding. The proposed FY2010 budget 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 administrations proposed FY2010 defense budget also proposes to terminate the F-35 alternate ...

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