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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Obama won't reveal direction on F-22 until April

F-22 RaptorPresident Obama will not reveal his decision on whether to continue funding for Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft until a detailed budget is sent to Congress sometime in April, a Pentagon official told Reuters.

Congress, when it passed the fiscal 2009 defense budget last fall, directed the president to decide by March 1 whether to continue F-22 production or shut the program down.

The Air Force continues to argue that it needs more F-22s than the 183 authorized to date and prime contractor Lockheed Martin and program supporters in Congress have been pressing the administration to provide funding in 2009 and 2010 for additional F-22s, saying funding approval was needed very soon in order to preserve production capacity and jobs.

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