
F-35 Acquisition. Navy Vice Adm. Mat Winter, the new head of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, says he is pursuing “agile acquisition principles” to speed up improvements to the stealthy jet. “Our solicitation process in the F-35 enterprise is on the verge of acquisition malpractice,” he says. “It takes way too long to get a requirement to an industry performer, that industry performer to get me a proposal and then to do the [technical evaluation] and actually do a…