"What we found is that systems that are heavily reliant on contractor support, that have a minimum of government-owned intellectual property or access to the intellectual property, that the flexibility to make changes in accordance with a new national security environment is limited," Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Lowman told Breaking Defense.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Sustainment Christopher Lowman told Breaking Defense that negotiations on the performance-based logistics agreement with Lockheed are at an impasse.
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In an interview with Breaking Defense, Lockheed exec Greg Ulmer pushed back on the Pentagon's complaints about technical data sharing, and said the firm is working with the DoD on better ways to track spare parts.
In a high-profile public spat with little precedence between the airframe and engine giants, Pratt & Whitney executives are formally accusing Lockheed Martin of prioritizing its own bottom line by seeking an adaptive engine solution for the Joint Strike Fighter.
“I can't look at you in the eyes and tell you I'll get back below 80 million,” said Greg Ulmer, who leads Lockheed’s aeronautics business. “But I do think there's opportunity space … to keep cost out of the airplane.”
The Spanish defense ministry put the kibosh on talks of an F-35 buy, but Lockheed's vice president for aeronautics is "pretty confident" that Madrid will need to buy F-35s to replace its Harriers.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
Asked during his briefing here whether 25 by 25 was achievable, Greg Ulmer, head of the F-35 program for Lockheed Martin, said the company would prove itself just as it had by lowering the cost of an F-35A to below $80 million one year early.
FARNBOURGH AIR SHOW: When Lockheed Martin bumped North Grumman’s Disgtributed Aperture System from the F-35 program in favor one offered by Raytheon, analysts were shocked. it largely drove Northrop out of a significant segment of the electro-optical sensor market and was believed to significantly reduce the company’s revenue over the life of the F-35. Greg […]