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Air Force

DoD to Have Tighter Control Over NGAD Than Pentagon Has Had with F-35, Kendall Says

Frank Wolfe

Monday, May 22nd, 2023

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DoD to Have Tighter Control Over NGAD Than Pentagon Has Had with F-35, Kendall Says

An F-35 Lightning II assigned to the 56th Fighter Wing performs a strafing run during exercise Haboob Havoc on April 26th over Barry M. Goldwater Range, Ariz. (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Pentagon will have a higher degree of control over the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program than DoD has had with the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on May 22. That increased level of control will likely come with federal government ownership of key data rights on NGAD. Over the last decade, "model-based system engineering and digitization moved forward as a model so that we can integrate our design teams between the government…

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