Sequestration cuts would hammer the Defense Department's top weapons programs, including the Joint Strike Fighter, the Littoral Combat Ship and the Air Force's new bomber, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told lawmakers today. In a letter to Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Panetta delivered the Pentagon's most detailed response yet to the question of what would happen to the DOD budget should "sequestration" result from a congressional supercommittee's inability to meet the...
