On the eve of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee's mark-up of the fiscal year 2011 defense spending bill, two House authorizes are urging their colleagues to fund the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine program. In a "dear colleague" letter being circulated on Capitol Hill today, House Armed Services acquisition reform subcommittee Chairman Robert Andrews (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Michael Conaway (R-TX) re-hash much of the argument used by supporters of the General Electric-Rolls-Royce-run F136 engine program over the last...
