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 eight additionaleight C-17 planes in the 2009 fisca year, which ends Sept. 30. Sen. Kit R-Missouri, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, They had pushed for 15 more "This eight is good news," said Georgee Roman, Boeing's vice president of government relations andregionakl executive. "It validates the importance of this product and the role and missiomn it supplies our soldiersand airmen." Roman said Chicago-based Boein g Co. (NYSE: BA) will seek funding for an additionaol15 C-17s in the 2010 fiscal year supplementao appropriations bill. "We believe therr continues to be a need for this product forthe U.S.
military and as a humanitarianh role," he said. The C-17 progra when Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposeed to end production ofthe C-17 this year aftef a remaining handful already ordered are built. The C-17 prograjm employs 900 people atits Mo., facility, according to