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Boeing F-18 Production Lines Get Senate Backing
Boeing's Defense, Space and Security division is headquartered in the City of Hazelwood.
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a defense bill last week that would maintain the production lines of the F-18 in St. Louis, and among other things get stop a new round of base closings.
The Senate defense bill is estimated to cost $631 billion in fiscal 2013, but is still about $4 billion less than the House-passed version.
Some local impacts include:
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- Purchase of 26 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighters and 12 EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft for a total of more than $3 billion. Both are made at the in the .
- An additional $60 million in “advance procurement funds” for the F/A-18 program.
- Lockheed-Martin Corp.’s F-35 program was also funded.
- Blocks of the Air Force from its planned Air National Guard cuts.
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