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F-35 Upgrade Plan Nears Completion, GAO Says

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

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F-35 Upgrade Plan Nears Completion, GAO Says

Hill Air Force Base F-35As fly in formation over the Utah Test and Training Range, March 30, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)

The U.S. Department of Defense plans to send Congress this month a multi-billion-dollar upgrade plan for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said Aug. 8.The report on the Block 4 modernization effort is required by the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization act and was supposed to be submitted to Capitol Hill in March. But due to budget uncertainties and a change in F-35 leadership, the program is reassessing Block 4’s cost, schedule and…

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