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There's an old saying about Washington that no political issue there is ever fully resolved. You may think it's done, but then it resurfaces in a new form and the fight goes on. So it appears to be with the alternate engine, the extra propulsion system for U.S. fighter jets that teammates General
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4/12/2012
Just when you thought General Electric's unneeded extra engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was about to bite the dust, here comes Bloomberg L.P.'s government research arm to confuse the issue. Last week BGov, as it is called, put out a short study stating the Pentagon might save billions
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7/26/2011
Over the last decade, Bloomberg News has emerged as the dominant news-gathering enterprise in the United States. It has gradually surpassed the Associated Press in influence while eclipsing perennial also-ran Reuters. Many reporters have left well-known outlets such as Forbes and Time
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7/21/2011
After five years of being told by two different administrations that its extra engine for the F-35 fighter is a waste of money, General Electric still can't take "no" for an answer. Its latest ploy to secure multi-billion-dollar contracts from the Pentagon for the superfluous propulsion system
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5/12/2011
A deficit-conscious House of Representatives has refused to fund the "alternate engine" General Electric wants to build for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and the Senate is likely to follow suit. GE's campaign to secure federal subsidies for its unneeded engine is in jeopardy -- which isn't surprising,
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3/21/2011
The jet engine General Electric and Rolls-Royce are developing for the F-35 fighter suffered a major setback last week when the House of Representatives voted to deny funding for fiscal 2011. In doing so, the House followed the advice of defense secretary Robert Gates, who has argued since 2007
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Date:
2/22/2011
The biggest weapons program in the Pentagon budget is a single-engine plane called the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. It's a crucial program, because it will replace aging Cold War jets operated by the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps with a stealthy combat plane that can preserve America's global
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2/15/2011
General Electric's aviation unit yesterday offered taxpayers the kind of bargain they aren't likely to get at WalMart. The company proposed to charge its government customer a mere $2 billion for the first lot of an item that the customer insists it doesn't want at all. The item in question is GE's
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4/28/2010
Today's Boston Globe contains a well-crafted story by defense correspondent Brian Bender about the decision of newly-elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown to abandon the principles on which he campaigned to buy a prime cut of Pentagon
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4/8/2010
What's wrong with this picture? Last year Congress approved tough acquisition reform legislation with the support of top defense authorizers in both chambers. To enforce greater realism in projecting weapons costs, the legislation directed policymakers to rely on estimates provided by the Pentagon's
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Date:
3/2/2010