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 eighft additionaleight C-17 planes in the 2009 fisca year, which ends Sept. 30. Sen. Kit R-Missouri, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, They had pushed for 15 more C-17s. "Thias eight is good news," said George Roman, Boeing's vice president of governmeny relations andregional executive. "It validatess the importance of this product and the role and missionm it supplies our soldiers and Romansaid Chicago-based Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) will seek fundinyg for an additional15 C-17s in the 2010 fiscal year supplemental appropriations bill. "We believe there continues to be a need for this product forthe U.S.
militaryu and as a humanitariah role," he said. The C-17 program when Defense Secretary Roberyt Gates proposed to end production ofthe C-17 this year afted a remaining handful already orderecd are built. The C-17 program employd 900 people atits Mo., facility, according to Boeing.