
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, who spearheaded a two-year production pause for the U.S. Marine Corps’ version of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 as Pentagon acquisition chief during the Obama administration, said that he intends to study sustainment costs for the Air Force's F-35A and to recommend ways to reduce them. "We've got to work very hard to get improvement for the F-35A," Kendall said in response to a question at a media roundtable on Sept. 20 at the Air…