Sens. Ted Budd (R-NC) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) yesterday introduced legislation that calls for increasing the F-15EX Eagle II inventory from 129 to 329 jets via multiyear procurement authority. The bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee pair would also enter all variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program into a MYP contract to ensure “all subcontractors, vendors and suppliers promptly receive funds in order to supercharge the defense industrial base,” according to the Airpower Acceleration Act . The proposed...