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Thursday, May 20, 2010

House panel defies Pentagon on fighter engine

F-35 Lightning IIThe U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, defying the Pentagon for the fourth year in a row, approved continued development of an alternate engine by General Electric Co and Rolls-Royce Group Plc for the multinational F-35 fighter aircraft program.

The panel, in its version of a defense spending bill for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1, added $485 million for the program on Wednesday, adopting the recommendations of two of its subcommittees.

The measure would require the Pentagon to budget for the alternate engine starting in fiscal 2012 and would withhold 25 percent of fiscal 2011 funds for F-35 development until the Pentagon's top arms buyer certified that all funds for the engine's development and procurement had been made available.

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