Boeing paid the right guys off.....

We'll see some trickle down in my neck of the woods as my daughter in law works for a subcontractor for airplane parts.

I need to find out who in the Oba mama's admin is on their payroll!


Pentagon delays F-35, buys more Boeing fighters | Reuters

WASHINGTON | Thu Jan 6, 2011 7:14pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon overhauled the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter program for the second time in a year and said it would buy 41 Boeing Co F/A-18 warplanes over the next three years to offset slower production of the Lockheed plane.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced on Thursday a further restructuring of the radar-evading F-35 as part of a broad cost-reduction plan, saving it would result in net savings of about $4 billion over the next five years.

The Pentagon's biggest arms program, the new fighter is being developed with eight international partner countries at total cost of $382 billion, but the program has run into schedule delays and massive cost overruns in recent years.

Gates said work on the Air Force and Navy versions of the plane was moving along satisfactorily.