I’d like to change some money ptlls essays oc One can argueâas General Bogdan does, and as some opponents concedeâthat given enough time, and given copious yet unspecified amounts of additional money, the Joint Strike Fighter could become the airplane its creators dreamed of. But how much is too much and can we afford three variants of an airplane whose flaws are still being uncovered? The Department of Defense is on the hook to serve up $37 billion in sequestration savings this year alone. Those cuts, however, have yet to hit the F-35. Instead they are being visited upon hundreds of thousands of civilian employeesâincluding some of those who work in the F-35âs Joint Program Officeâin the form of furloughs.