By Emelie Rutherford While lawmakers and Pentagon officials met privately yesterday about cost increases with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Marine Corps' top officer said he is "very concerned" about his service receiving the aircraft as planned in 2012. The Marine Corps is slated to receive the first squadron of the developmental F-35 from Lockheed Martin [LMT], in the form of the short-takeoff, vertical-landing (STOVL) version. This troubled and technologically tricky aircraft variant is slated to reach initial operational…
USMC Closely Monitoring F-35 Schedule As DoD Briefs Hill On Rising Cost
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