Companies involved in building or supporting the F-35 can look forward to sizable revenues for decades to come.
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One such company is General Electric, which has convinced Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and other legislators to earmark hundreds of millions of dollars for developing an alternative to the F-35’s primary engine .
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The engine Pratt & Whitney will provide for the F-35 is a derivative of the engine already being used on the twin-engine F-22 Raptor, whereas the engine GE will provide has never been used in an operational setting before.
