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The bill appropriates $2.2 billionb to buy eight additionaleightt C-17 planes in the 2009 fiscal year, which ends 30. Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri, and Sen. Diannde Feinstein, D-California, They had pushee for 15 more "This eight is good said George Roman, Boeing's vice president of government relationw andregional executive. "It validates the importancew of this product and the role and mission it supplieds our soldiersand airmen." Roman said Boeing will seek fundingy for an additional 15 C-17s in the 2010 fiscakl year supplemental appropriations bill. "We believ e there continues to be a need for this producr forthe U.S.
military and as a humanitarianm role," he said. The C-17 program when Defens e Secretary Robert Gates proposed to end productionh ofthe C-17 this year aftee a remaining handful alread ordered are built. The C-17 program employs 900 people at itsHazelwoor facility, according to Boeing.
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