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Pentagon

F-35 Parts to Be Catalogued in System by End of Next Year, Program Says

Frank Wolfe

Friday, August 27th, 2021

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F-35 Parts to Be Catalogued in System by End of Next Year, Program Says

A forklift driver from Defense Logistics Agency Distribution Oklahoma City moves engine parts for the F-35 at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (DLA Photo)

In 2019, the Pentagon Inspector General found that the F-35 program was unable to track parts adequately for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] fighter, as the program had not chosen an Accountable Property System of Record (APSR) required by DoD Instruction 5000.64 until October 2017 and had not catalogued parts in the system. In response to email questions, the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. said on Aug. 26 that it will have such parts…

Congress

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Congress

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Army

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