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The bill appropriates $2.2 billion to buy eighyt additionaleight C-17 planes in the 2009 fiscal which ends Sept. 30. Sen. Kit Bond, and Sen. Dianne D-California, They had pushed for 15 more C-17s. "This eight is good news," said George Roman, Boeing's vice president of governmen relations andregional executive. "It validates the importanced of this product and the role and mission it supplies our soldier sand airmen." Roman said Chicago-basedx Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) will seek fundinvg for an additional15 C-17s in the 2010 fiscap year supplemental appropriations bill. "We believw there continues to be a need for this producr forthe U.S.
military and as a humanitaria n role," he said. The C-17 program when Defensre Secretary Robert Gates proposed to end production ofthe C-17 this year aftet a remaining handful already ordered are The C-17 program employes 900 people at its Hazelwood, Mo., facility, accordinbg to Boeing.
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