{"id":191081,"date":"2009-09-26T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/26\/f136-saga-continues\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T11:44:00","slug":"f136-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/26\/f136-saga-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"F136 Saga Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Senate Appropriations Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/57865-senate-panel-denies-funding-for-fighter-engine\">cut funding for the F136 alternate engine for the JSF<\/a>, though the committee chair, Daniel Inouye (D-HI) has made it clear that he wants it back when the conference report comes out.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s clear that the White House&#8217;s opposition to continuing work on an alternate engine is soft, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/09\/17\/osd-ge-keep-talking-f136-price\/\">discussions between the Pentagon and GE\/Rolls on a firm fixed price for the engine<\/a>, are continuing, and GE is promising a, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/09\/23\/umm-the-f136-fixed-price-concept\/\">formal unsolicited Fixed Price offer<\/a>,&#8221; in the next week or so.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if the DoD is seriously looking at proposals, of if they are just trying to browbeat Pratt &amp; Whitney though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Senate Appropriations Committee cut funding for the F136 alternate engine for the JSF, though the committee chair, Daniel Inouye (D-HI) has made it clear that he wants it back when the conference report comes out. In any case, it&#8217;s clear that the White House&#8217;s opposition to continuing work on an alternate engine is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1008,1020,1128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-defense-procurement","category-legislation","category-propulsion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}