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Lockheed Martin Aiming for $25K Cost Per Flight Hour Goal for F-35 by 2025

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, March 4th, 2019

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Lockheed Martin Aiming for $25K Cost Per Flight Hour Goal for F-35 by 2025

Maintenance staff inspect one of the 10 Luke AFB F-35s sent to Nellis AFB for a training deployment, April 15, 2015. Photo: U.S. Air Force.

ORLANDO, Fla. – The manufacturer of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is committed to lowering sustainment costs over the next decade, and pledged to reach a goal of $25,000 per flight hour per year by 2025, an official said March 1. Lockheed Martin [LMT] has begun to focus on increasing supply availability and optimize maintenance with process automation, and has made improvements to the F-35’s infamously unwieldy automatic logistics information system (ALIS) to reach that goal, Vice President of Sustainment…

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