DoD: We'll Buy Fewer F-35s If Costs Keep Rising -- Defense News
The Pentagon will buy fewer F-35s than planned if program costs keep rising, says a senior U.S. defense official.
"If there is [additional] cost growth, then we will have to reduce the buy," Robert Hale, Pentagon comptroller, said March 3 during a Precision Strike Association-sponsored conference in Arlington, Va. "I don't see us getting additional funding" above the $708 billion in the Obama administration's 2011 defense spending proposal.
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