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06.17.2009 10:30 am

Funding for more F/A-18s clears another hurdle

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — Funding for a muti-year contract for F/A-18s inched closer to becoming official policy today when the House Armed Services Committee approved the measure in 2010 defense spending.

The language giving the Navy the authority to spend $108 million to secure a multi-year…

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06.09.2009 12:55 pm

Bond sets sights on extending St. Louis-made jet fighter

Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau
Sens. Bond (left) and Durbin

Bond

WASHINGTON — With funding for one endangered Boeing plane likely secure at least for now, Sen. Christopher S. “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., is moving on, fighting reductions for an aircraft line that employs thousands in St. Louis.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates‘ 2010…

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