Senior U.S. and U.K. defense officials today signed an agreement to move forward on the Joint Strike Fighter program, resolving a longstanding dispute over the transfer of sensitive technologies that threatened to disrupt armaments cooperation efforts between the two allies. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England and Lord Drayson, Britain's minister of defence for procurement, inked a memorandum of understanding for "production, sustainment and follow-on development" of the Joint Strike Fighter in a meeting this morning at the Pentagon, paving the...
