For example, the Pentagon says it wants to buy fewer F-35 joint strike fighter planes than had been planned - the single-engine fighter has been plagued by cost overruns and technical glitches - but the contractors and their friends on Capitol Hill promise a fight.
The Hague is the source of all the cables in their possession and topics covered include Afghanistan, the joint strike fighter and Geert Wilders (we looked at Wilders here and also the fraught Dutch debate about the joint strike fighter).
The new carriers are designed for the Lockheed Martin F-35 joint strike fighter.
The six include the F-35 joint strike fighter: No big surprise here.
It held details of progress on the development of the United States' supersonic joint strike fighter.
Mr. Burbage will not say how long he expects to lead the joint strike fighter team.
Shares in the company, which part builds the F-35 joint strike fighter jet, have jumped 21.25p to 349.75p.
Baroness Symons met senior Pentagon politicians in Washington to discuss the joint strike fighter and other equipment issues last May.
The most ambitious of these is the F-35 joint strike fighter, developed to serve both Air Force and Navy needs.
It is also a big partner of Lockheed Martin in the F-35, a joint strike fighter and the world's biggest military project with potential sales of $200 billion.
