{"id":19227,"date":"2011-05-20T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T21:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=19227"},"modified":"2011-05-20T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T21:22:43","slug":"heh-is-anyone-listening-in-washington-d-c-will-you-please-re-allocate-the-funding-for-a-few-f-35s-towards-online-learning-content-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/05\/20\/heh-is-anyone-listening-in-washington-d-c-will-you-please-re-allocate-the-funding-for-a-few-f-35s-towards-online-learning-content-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Heh! Is anyone listening in Washington, D.C.!? Will you please re-allocate the funding for a few F-35s towards online learning content development?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cost of buying and operating 2443 F35s is estimated to be $1.3 trillion<\/a><\/strong> — from Next Big Future<\/p>\n

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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Stealth multirole fighter) program is now projected to cost $1.3 trillion dollars<\/strong> to operate and maintain over its 30-year lifetime<\/a><\/p>\n

Ashton Carter, under-secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said that the new $133 million price per aircraft was not affordable.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lawmakers Want Backup Plan After Carter Calls JSF Costs ‘Unaffordable’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pentagon’s top arms buyer this week called current cost projections for the Joint Strike Fighter “unaffordable,” triggering a bipartisan group of senators to demand a Defense Department contingency plan for how tactical air forces would be modernized should the F-35 program collapse under the weight of its forecasted $1.3 trillion price tag.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\n Can you image what several teams worth of specialists could do with $1.3 trillion dollars!? Man, you could meet President Obama’s higher-ed related goals in a heartbeat!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cost of buying and operating 2443 F35s is estimated to be $1.3 trillion — from Next Big Future   The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Stealth multirole fighter) program is now projected to cost $1.3 trillion dollars to operate and maintain over its 30-year lifetime Ashton Carter, under-secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,57,74,62,13,11],"tags":[52,175,607,27,601,574,573],"class_list":["post-19227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-leadership","category-online-learning","category-using-teams","category-vision-possibilities","tag-budgetary","tag-content","tag-leadership","tag-legislation","tag-online-learning","tag-using-teams","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19234,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19227\/revisions\/19234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}