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F-35 Follow-On Development Contract Slips To June 2019

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, June 5th, 2018

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F-35 Follow-On Development Contract Slips To June 2019

Maintenance staff inspect one of the 10 Luke AFB F-35s sent to Nellis AFB for a training deployment, April 15, 2015. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

The U.S. Department of Defense plans to award a major follow-on development contract for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in June 2019, about 10 months later than previously planned, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).The slippage will give the F-35 program more time to finish its original, often-delayed development effort and “lay a more solid, knowledge-based foundation for modernization,” the GAO wrote in its report, released June 5. DoD is still refining many details for Block…

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