JSF Costs Rose 64%
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JSF program records busiest month ever for F-35 testing. F-35B crosses 500th flight mark. GE leans on Pentagon’s #2 to support second JSF engine. Cost for F-35 rose 64 percent over last decade.
Contracts: Pratt & Whitney gets $75 million to study its own JSF engine and $16.6 million to maintain engines for the EA-6B. Boeing gets $9.9 million to upgrade P-8As.
Pax River preparing to test Wide Focal Plane Array Camera for Shadow UAV. Pax River sailor becomes first enlisted man to fly the Fire Scout.
Refueling capability coming to X-47B UCAS-D in 2014.
Cato Institute fellow: Cutting Pentagon spending would fix US defense strategy. Congress wants specifics on cuts Pentagon plans to make.
CIA tightens drone strike rules.
