Pentagon budget steers $5.5 billion to Evergreen State for military construction, new jets

http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2013/04/10/pentagon-budget-steers-billions-to-evergreen-state-for-military-construction-new-jets/



The Pentagon’s 2014 budget request includes $3.7 billion for the production of Navy P-8A jets. Boeing finishes the jets in Renton and at Boeing Field before delivering them to the military.

Pentagon budget steers $5.5 billion to Evergreen State for military construction, new jets
Post by Adam Ashton / The News Tribune on April 10, 2013 at 3:20 pm

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The proposed budget sets aside $324 million for new work at military bases in the region, down from $581 million last year.

The request includes $144 million for air field improvements that would benefit a new Army helicopter brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and another $85 million to help the Navy prepare to move 28 Boeing-made submarine-hunting jets to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.

The budget also continues funding for two Puget Sound-made Boeing projects, the Air Force refueling tanker known as the KC-46A and the Whidbey Island-bound Navy P-8 Poseidon.

The tanker, to be manufactured in Everett, would receive about $1.6 billion next year, down from $1.8 billion this year.