Government auditors said the debate over continuing the ill-fated F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s (JSF) alternate engine would be better informed if the Pentagon updated its cost assessments. A recently completed performance audit by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), requested and released by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), notes that the Pentagon has not done a complete analysis of potential life-cycle costs of having two F-35 engines in more than four years. The Pentagon’s projection that continuing the alternate-engine program through 2016…
Levin: GAO Audit Shows DoD Should Update 2nd Engine Estimates
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