The Weekly Debrief: No Easy Fix For F-35 Sustainment Cost Problems, GAO Says

UK Lockheed Martin F-35B
Credit: Royal Navy
Pentagon officials think they can make the Lockheed Martin F-35 cheaper to operate by taking over several of the sustainment functions outsourced to industry at the beginning of the program. The problem is that the government still does not have a plan to successfully wrestle those functions away...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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