BUSINESS BRIEFING / DEFENSE
Times Wire Reports
House lawmakers will include $2.2 billion in the Pentagon’s war spending request to buy additional Boeing Co. C-17 transports, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey (D-Wis.) said.
The money would buy as many as eight planes, Obey said.
If approved by the full House and Senate, the added money would be a victory for Chicago-based Boeing. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recommended April 6 that the program be terminated once Boeing delivers the last of 205 C-17s in late 2010.
Boeing has said its plant in Long Beach will shut down in 2011 without more orders.
