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Longer Term Contracts Would Ease Production Surge, if Required for F-35, Lockheed Martin Official Says

Longer Term Contracts Would Ease Production Surge, if Required for F-35, Lockheed Martin Official Says
Pictured are F-35A Lightning II fighter aircraft before a night sortie from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif. on Feb. 10 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

AURORA, Colo.--If the balloon goes up or if significant new orders for the F-35 materialize near-term, could Lockheed Martin [LMT] ramp up its annual global production of the fighter above 156? "We look at several different things when it comes to making the 156," Chauncey McIntosh, Lockheed Martin's vice president and general manager of the F-35 program, said in an interview after a briefing to reporters on Tuesday at the Air and Space Forces Association's Warfare Symposium here. "First, we…

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