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Senate Democrats defied Biden in their vote to boost Pentagon spending. And it wasn t even close
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was the only member of the Armed Services Committee who voted against the $25 billion spending increase.
Sen. Mark Kelly, a former naval aviator and astronaut who is up for reelection in 2022, said the budget buildup was needed to meet military requirements that didn t make the spending request. | AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File
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The Senate Armed Services Committee s surprise
decision to endorse a $25 billion increase to the Pentagon s budget this week was an utter blowout and the clearest sign yet that Democrats are more than willing to back sizable increases to President Joe Biden s military spending plan.
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Theresa Hitchens on April 26, 2021 at 5:08 PM
An Air Force maintainer plugs into the F-35 to perform pre-flight checks.
WASHINGTON: DoD is considering how the services might take over more of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s maintenance chores from Lockheed Martin in order to reduce costs.
The study of future sustainment options
is one of a number of efforts by DoD’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), prime contractor Lockheed Martin and engine-maker Pratt & Whitney to get a handle of the program’s myriad issues. These range the jet’s sky high operating costs, to chronic spare parts shortages, to its deeply-troubled ALIS maintenance software, to a potential shortfall of F135 engines, to Block 4 software delays.