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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Northrop Grumman Offers Price for More B-2s: The Los Angeles-based defense contractor formally offered to sell the government 20 more B-2 bombers for a fixed price of $11.4 billion in the company’s latest effort to save its major weapons program from extinction. Northrop hopes the Republican takeover of Congress will reverse years of legislative opposition to the “stealth” bomber just as the 20th and final bat-winged plane nears completion in Palmdale. Northrop’s figures differ sharply from those in a Congressional Budget Office study saying 20 more B-2s would cost $26 billion. The Pentagon last summer put the cost at $20 billion.
