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Pentagon

Insight into Identities of Lower Level Suppliers Issue for DoD

Frank Wolfe

Friday, September 23rd, 2022

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Insight into Identities of Lower Level Suppliers Issue for DoD

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

The Pentagon's pause in its acceptance of new Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighters for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps points to a larger problem--the apparent lack of knowledge by DoD and its contractors of the identities of lower level suppliers. Lockheed Martin has applied for a national security waiver to resume U.S. F-35 shipments after DoD halted deliveries upon the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) telling the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) on Aug. 19 of a…

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