
Joint Strike Fighter. The Defense Department is not reexamining its plans to buy 2,443 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters over the life of the program, despite statements by incoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford to the contrary. “We’re not making any formal evaluation or revisit to those objectives at this particular moment in time, but as with all programs going forward into the FY 17 budget process, every program is going to be reviewed,” Pentagon…