Carter- Plan to reorganise the F-35 program
The top U.S. DOD acquisition official Ashton Carter has taken the Joint Estimates Team warnings of F-35 program cost growth and delays to heart. A meeting is scheduled for later in the month to seek a way to avoid adverse events predicted by the JET team.
James Fallows of The Atlantic, wonders what has happened to the program he wrote about so long ago. In other news, Inside Defense reports that the first production representative U.S. Navy F-35C known as CF-1–rolled out months ago–will fly sometime "early next year". It would be nice if AF-1, the first USAF production representative F-35A–rolled out in December 2008– would fly. Hopefully soon.
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DesScorp is discussing. 
DesScorp 7:23 pm on November 10, 2009 Permalink |
I fear it may be too late to do anything about F-35 in the near future. The program has so much power behind it that it may be unstoppable.