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F-35 Development Costs To Come Down In 2015, Pentagon Says

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, March 12th, 2012

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Redesign and modification in the development of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) will continue to drive the cost of the program for the next few years, but it will likely start dropping in 2015, Vice Adm. David Venlet, the Pentagon’s program executive officer for the JSF, said recently. Venlet said the redesign and modification costs--known as “concurrency”--have been affecting all aspects of the program, including hardware, software, schedules and technical performance, but he was confident that Pentagon and manufacturer Lockheed…

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