F-35 program’s shift to performance-based logistics on track for end of year

F-35 program’s shift to performance-based logistics on track for end of year
F-35 program’s shift to performance-based logistics on track for end of year

If certain requirements mandated by the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act are met, the new performance-based logistics contract “could be awarded by the end of 2023,” a Joint Program Office spokesman told Breaking Defense.

New F-35 Sustainment Deal Creates Path To Lockheed Multi-Year PBL Contract

New F-35 Sustainment Deal Creates Path To Lockheed Multi-Year PBL Contract
New F-35 Sustainment Deal Creates Path To Lockheed Multi-Year PBL Contract

The cost per flight hour of the F-35A, the most common of the three F-35 variants, will drop from $33,600 to $30,000 over the contract.

Lockheed Martin To Build Up To 139 F-35s This Year

Lockheed Martin To Build Up To 139 F-35s This Year
Lockheed Martin To Build Up To 139 F-35s This Year

Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office are expected to need a six-month stop-gap contract before inking a deal for sustainment through 2023, company officials say.

ATL Frank Kendall: Sequestration ‘Unconscionable’; Endorses PBLs

NEW YORK: “It is utterly unconscionable — utterly unconscionable — that Congress will allow sequestration to go on.” Those are the words of Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s head of acquisition, speaking to an audience of several hundred New York financial types. Kendall is just back from a trip to Afghanistan and he had heard from…