
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said that the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 is to have no more than five cannibalizations per 1,000 hours and a maximum of 10 per 1,000 hours, and, while such rates were elevated in 2018, the F-35 program has not disclosed more recent statistics, and GAO said that it does not have updated figures either. While the sustainment contract for the F-35 has said that the not mission capable for supply (NMC-S) rate is to…