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Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Budget cuts loom over plans for F-35 at Nellis
Nellis Air Force Base
The potential for defense budget cuts and layoffs at Lockheed Martin loom over plans to deliver the first F-35 fighter jets to Nellis Air Force Base early next year, though no decision has been announced about which programs might get cut and where.
The base in southern Nevada is set to get 36 Joint Strike Fighter jets over 10 years. Automatic defense budget cuts of nearly $500 billion are set to take effect in January unless Congress agrees on another deficit-reduction plan or suspends the current plan.
Some Republican senators say it would be a mistake to cut the defense budget so steeply.
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