![]() Rumsfeld and the administration have tried to rein in the costs of the $65 billion fighter jet program, which has been two decades in the making and has suffered one cost overrun after another.īut their efforts were rebuffed this week by the powerful F-22 lobby, a combination of the Air Force, Lockheed Martin, which makes the fighter jet, and their allies in Congress. Rumsfeld and Washington budget-cutters - and won. ![]() ![]() But its biggest battles have not been in the skies, but in the corridors of power in Washington, where it has just taken on Defense Secretary Donald H. ![]() ![]() The F-22 Raptor fighter jet, the United States Air Force’s most expensive weapon, is designed for global air dominance. ![]()
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