"oeing 787 commercial transports are both running years late in their development, and the Airbus A400 military transport is so troubled that it may not be fixable. The F-35 program is more complicated than any of these programs -- it must develop three different versions of the same airframe -- and yet it has progressed more smoothly."
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"lar thing which is in the particularly sensitive areas -- low observables, counter low observable, electronic warfare and so forth. And I administered that little slice. And I have been pleased to find that we have actually a very good analytical team underpinning our decisions in that area. I don't think you can say that about all the other areas. But in that particular niche, we do."
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"THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 9, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON WINNING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Rose Garden 11:16 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning. After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!" And then Sasha added, "Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up." So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective. I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel Committee. Let me be clear: I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations. To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired...
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"QDR can only be useful to the extent it is tied to detailed force plans, procurement plans, program budgets, and measures of effectiveness, rather than the past mix of jargon and buzzwords."
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"If buying fewer F-18s puts unmanned strike aircraft on carriers sooner (thinking money here), then I'm for buying fewer."
- Stephen Trimble
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"the report showed that buying tankers from both companies at a rate of about 24 a year for $5 billion could pay off in the longer term"
- Stephen Trimble
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""It could end up being less," he said, adding, "if that's the case, we will still have a predominately F-35" force."
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"Congressional Quarterly is reporting that Representative John Murtha (D-PA) is considering providing an additional $10 billion to the $75.5 billion portion of the request specifically for the military."
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Teal Group Predicts Worldwide UAV Market Will Total Over $62 Billion in Its Just Released 2009 UAV Market Profile and Forecast - Yahoo! Finance - http://finance.yahoo.com/news...
"Teal Group's 2009 market study estimates that UAV spending will almost double over the next decade from current worldwide UAV expenditures of $4.4 billion annually to $8.7 billion within a decade, totaling just over $62 billion in the next ten years. (For further details and study availability, contact the respective Teal sales representative in your area at http://www.tealgroup.com/)."
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"Gates said it may be time for the Pentagon to more carefully review the planned weapons programs of the individual services to stop costly duplication. “We may have to invest more in the future-oriented program of one service and less in that of another service -- particularly when both programs were conceived with the same threat in mind,” he said, citing no examples."
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U.S. Air Force senior leadership will be returning soon to Congress to propose a new requirement for F-22 Raptors of between 250-275 aircraft, a cut of more than 100 F-22s in the service’s current baseline.
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"The Finnish Air Force is keen on Anglo-American stealth strike fighter F-35 as a potential replacement of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18, the FAF's current mainstay, Finnish national daily Helsingin Sanomat and the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) reported on Wednesday."
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