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New GAO Report Paints Worrying Picture for F-35 Sustainment

By Vivienne Machi

Thursday, April 25th, 2019

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New GAO Report Paints Worrying Picture for F-35 Sustainment

Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II at the 2018 Paris Air Show. Photo: Lockheed Martin

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a new report April 25 offering new recommendations to improve the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s supply chain and sustainment issues, and warns that without implementing new procedures, the program could prove unable to meet readiness requirements in an affordable manner. In the report, titled “F-35 Aircraft Sustainment: DOD Needs to Address Substantial Supply Chain Challenges,” the office lays out eight recommendations for the Pentagon to work on – together with the Under Secretary of…

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