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Air Force

DoD Eyes Shifting F-35 Management To Military Services

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, April 4th, 2018

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DoD Eyes Shifting F-35 Management To Military Services

Hill Air Force Base F-35As fly in formation over the Utah Test and Training Range, March 30, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)

The U.S. Department of Defense wants to restructure the F-35 Lightning II program to give the military services more control over the maturing fighter jet, according to Pentagon officials.DoD envisions that the F-35, which is currently managed by a joint program office (JPO), will eventually transition to service-run program offices, Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord wrote in a March 27 letter to congressional defense panels. An Air Force office will oversee the F-35A conventional-takeoff-and-landing variant, and a Marine Corps/Navy office…

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