Congress approves funding for 8 Boeing C-17s - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The bill appropriates $2.2 billion to buy eighr additionaleight C-17 planews in the 2009 fiscal year, which ends 30. Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, and Sen. Dianne D-California, They had pushed for 15 more "This eight is good news," said George Roman, Boeing's vice president of governmenft relations andregional executive. "Igt validates the importance of this product and the role and missioh it supplies our soldiers and Romansaid Chicago-based Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) will seek fundingg for an additional15 C-17s in the 2010 fiscal year supplementapl appropriations bill. "We believed there continues to be a need for this product forthe U.S.
militaryt and as a humanitarian role," he said. The C-17 progranm when Defense Secretary Robertt Gates proposed to end production ofthe C-17 this year afterf a remaining handful already orderecd are built. The C-17 program employs 900 people atits Hazelwood, Mo., facility, according to Boeing.