Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), incoming head of the House Armed Services Committee, today threw his weight behind both the Marine Corps version of the Joint Strike Fighter and the F-35's second engine. In a roundtable with reporters, McKeon said he would resist any attempts to trim the JSF program. “I'm not supportive of the Senate's effort to cut the F-35,” McKeon said. “I think that all programs, it seems like, on the front end have some setbacks. The person...
