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Defense Contract Management Agency Negotiating with Lockheed Martin on Possible F-35 ALIS Repayment

Defense Contract Management Agency Negotiating with Lockheed Martin on Possible F-35 ALIS Repayment
The U.S. Air Force is trying to improve the rate of Ready For Issue (RFI) parts delivered to F-35 bases. Pictured are two F-35s assigned to Eglin AFB, Fla. (Air Force Photo)

Since April, Lockheed Martin [LMT] and the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) have been negotiating a possible repayment by Lockheed Martin of $183 million to $303 million of awarded F-35 funds to the federal government for defects in the nearly two-decade old Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), according to testimony at a nearly three hour July 22 House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. In June last year, the DoD Inspector General reported that the Pentagon received non‑Ready-For-Issue (RFI) spare parts…

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