Warner opposes abandoning GE-Rolls engine for fighter

Published: Sat Mar 4th, 2006
Source: aimpoints.hq.af.mil



U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner said he opposes a Pentagon plan to cancel a Rolls-Royce Group Plc-General Electric Co. program to produce a back-up engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Warner said he would convene a hearing as early as next week to hear the Pentagon's rationale for canceling the 10-year-old program for the engine, intended as a backup for the primary engine produced by United Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney.

"I feel very strongly that it's in the interest of preserving our industrial base to have two engine manufacturers," Warner said in an interview today.
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