Sydney Freedberg Jr. writes that the House panel wants to add as much as six of Lockheed Martin‘s F-35B jets for the U.S. Marine Corps and 12 of Boeing‘s Super Hornets for the U.S. Navy, as well as upgrade the U.S. Army‘s General Dynamics-built Strykers.
The subcommittee is also looking into the Army’s upgrade plan for the National Guard‘s UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters and additional procurements for the Hercules and Javelin programs, the report said.
According to the report, a source indicated that the Stryker upgrade, in particular, could be in line with an operational need statement in the Army.