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DoD: F-35 to Breach Nunn-McCurdy Limits by 50%

By JOHN REED

The F-35 Lightning II strike fighter program will breach the Nunn-McCurdy limits with a cost growth of more than 50 percent from the original 2001 program baseline, said a top Pentagon program evaluator. ... full story

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