Key House lawmakers are pressing Defense Secretary Robert Gates to back up his claim of a "business case" for terminating the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine program. Specifically, lawmakers want to know whether DOD's plan to jettison the F136 engine program -- which Congress has funded in recent years over Pentagon objections and which Gates has vowed to take "a final stand" against in order to terminate -- rests on a recent formal assessment. The many congressional supporters of...
