The House Armed Services Committee is proposing funding for 17 of the 24 additional F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets the services asked for in their fiscal year 2018 unfunded priorities lists. Committee aids briefed reporters June 26 on the chairman's mark of the FY-18 defense policy legislation. Aids said the F-35 quantity increase includes 10 of the 14 F-35s the Air Force requested, boosting the service's proposed JSF procurement by $1.2 billion. Three of four F-35Bs on the Navy's UPL...
