Download or read book The Battle Between Congress and the President on the Funding of the Alternate Engine for the F-35 written by Benjamin Boehm and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lockheed Martin F-35, powered by the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine was the winner of the Joint Strike Fighter competition in 2001 (Gertler, 2012, p. 1). The Department of Defense plans to buy 2,457 F-35 aircraft (Oliveri, Both Sides of F-35 Debate Try to Use Numbers, Delays to Their Advantage, 2010) (Abramson, 2013). The total value of all the engine contracts is estimated to be $100B (Donnelly, Pressure Mounts in F-35 Engine Debate; Gates Believes Veto Is Imminent, 2010). Starting in FY1996, Congress mandated the development of an alternate engine to the F135. The two engines would be interchangeable. The alternate engine would provide competition for future purchases of engines for the Joint Strike Fighter, and would decrease the overall cost of program, according to proponents. The F136, developed by General Electric and Rolls Royce was developed as the alternate engine (Gertler, 2012, p. 1)."--Background.