Keeping JSF Healthy is Top Airpower Priority

By Rebecca Grant

Keeping the F-35 program healthy is the top U.S. airpower priority this year. After taking its medicine with a Nunn-McCurdy unit cost breach in 2010, the program is in strong hands with new managers, Vice Adm. David Venlet at the program office, and Larry Lawson leading the Lockheed Martin team (see p. 55).

F-35 unit costs have gone up. But the real question is whether the F-35 shifts to a robust pace in its test ...

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