{"id":192236,"date":"2009-04-25T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/25\/lockheed-martin-rolls-over-on-f-22-cancellation\/"},"modified":"2009-04-25T05:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T10:56:00","slug":"lockheed-martin-rolls-over-on-f-22-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/25\/lockheed-martin-rolls-over-on-f-22-cancellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed Martin Rolls Over on F-22 Cancellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/04\/22\/325475\/lockheed-martin-to-accept-f-22-termination-decision.html\">an unexpected but welcome development<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A top Lockheed Martin executive says the company will not oppose the Department of Defense&#8217;s proposal to halt F-22 production. The company stands to lose production lines for the F-22 and the VH-71 presidential helicopter under fiscal year 2010 budget proposals announced by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on 6 April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine what gun that they are holding to LM&#8217;s head to make them do this, but it needs to used across the entire Pentagon procurement process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unexpected but welcome development: A top Lockheed Martin executive says the company will not oppose the Department of Defense&#8217;s proposal to halt F-22 production. The company stands to lose production lines for the F-22 and the VH-71 presidential helicopter under fiscal year 2010 budget proposals announced by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192236"}],"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=192236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}