Schwartz: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Nunn-McCurdy Breach 'A Possibility'

By Marcus Weisgerber / February 18, 2010 at 5:00 AM
ORLANDO, FL -- The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the most expensive weapon system acquisition program in Pentagon history, will likely breach congressional spending limits based on new funding estimates, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz acknowledged today. "The department's working though the [Nunn-McCurdy] process now and I would say it's a possibility," he told reporters during a briefing this afternoon at an Air Force Association-sponsored conference here. "It may be even likely, but I don't want to...

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