GE Trying to Resuscitate F-35 Alternative Engine

The Politico newspaper last week ran an article detailing the last-ditch efforts that GE is making in its attempt to save the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's proposed "alternative engine".
The Obama Administration and Secretary of Defense Gates have targeted this second engine for elimination, but GE is fighting hard to save it in the upcoming conference committees.
The Obama Administration has already succeeded in ending the production of F-22 Raptors, one of the key cuts that Secretary Gates announced earlier this year. The JSF second engine was also on Gates's list, backed up by a threatened veto by President Obama.
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