The April 21 Daily Report entry on the Pentagon’s projected costs of the F-35 strike fighter program should have listed those costs as $1.3 trillion to $1.4 trillion, not $1.3 billion to $1.4 billion. We’ve corrected the entry.
U.S. Air Force F-35s and F-22s regularly deploy deep into the Pacific region from Alaska, Utah, and Hawaii. In the future, though, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command would like to see the Air Force permanently station fifth-generation aircraft west of the international date line—closer to China.