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Congress keeps funding Boeing fighter jets that Navy says it doesn’t need


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While military leaders argue against production of new generations of aircraft, Congressional leaders are sending billions to defense contractors employing thousands

 

In August, Adm. Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, said the defense industry shouldn’t be lobbying Congress for “aircraft we don’t need,” according to a report in Breaking Defense. He said the General Accounting Office found 11 programs during the last 13 years were more expensive than planned or behind schedule.

“Although it’s in industry’s (financial) best interest building the ships that you want to build, lagging on repairs to ships and submarines, lobbying Congress to buy aircraft that we don’t need, that are excess to needs – it’s not helpful,” Gilday said. “That’s an example of … unacceptable outcomes that we cannot live with in this decade. We can’t keep going down this path.”

The remarks were “strikingly different than the open-arms approach senior brass usually give to industry during major conferences,” according to the report.:snip:

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