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.
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.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
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.
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 […]