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Air Force

F-35 Program Drops Second Helmet

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, October 11th, 2013

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The Pentagon has decided to stop work on an alternate helmet for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter being developed by BAE Systems, the program office said yesterday. Photo by Lockheed Martin. The decision comes after improvements to the primary helmet being developed by a Rockwell Collins [COL]-Elbit partnership has shown increased maturity and yielded cost savings of 12 percent from previous estimates, F-35 program spokesman Joe DellaVedova said. Dropping the BAE helmet should save about $45 million, DellaVedova said. DellaVedova…

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