Above: Lockheed Martin’s F-35 manufacturing techniques are state-of-the-art but leave open to question the degree of dependency on existing and proven methods, incorporating exotic materials and efficient information transfer systems for subcontractors and suppliers, but doing little to push technologies. (Photo, Lockheed Martin).From The Washington Post:
When President Obama promised Wednesday to attack defense spending that he considers wasteful and inefficient, he opened a fight with key lawmakers from his own party.
It was Democrats who stuffed an estimated $524 million in defense earmarks that the Pentagon did not request into the 2008 appropriations bill, about $220 million more than Republicans did, according to an independent estimate. Of the 44 senators who implored Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in January to build more F-22 Raptors -- a fighter conceived during the Cold War that senior Pentagon officials say is not suited to probable 21st-century conflicts -- most were Democrats.
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My Comment: Any bets that when the new Defense Budget is in Congress, it will be a few billion more than what the White House requested.
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