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Pentagon

Watchdog Report Calls for Increased Action to Maintain F-35 Reliability and Modernization

By Vivienne Machi

Monday, April 29th, 2019

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Watchdog Report Calls for Increased Action to Maintain F-35 Reliability and Modernization

An F-35C during clean wing flight qualifications and loads testing near NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

A new report calls on the Pentagon to take new actions to keep the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s reliability and modernization efforts on cost and on schedule. The report, released Monday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and titled “F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER: Action Needed to Improve Reliability and Prepare for Modernization Efforts,” notes that the fifth-generation aircraft program has made some progress on maintainability since the GAO’s last annual audit in 2018. However, it has only met half of…

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