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Senate Aims To Keep Tabs On F-35 Sustainment Costs

By Marc Selinger

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

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Senate Aims To Keep Tabs On F-35 Sustainment Costs

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.

The U.S. Senate has approved a proposal that would require the Pentagon to regularly brief lawmakers on efforts to contain sustainment costs for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.The measure would require that the Department of Defense, in its quarterly F-35 program briefings to the congressional defense panels, include “an assessment of efforts to ensure that excessive sustainment costs do not threaten the ability to purchase the required number of aircraft.” The proposal, by Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), received Senate approval late…

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