A key operational milestone for the tri-service Joint Strike Fighter would be pushed back one year if funding cuts included in dueling versions of fiscal year 2007 defense authorization legislation eventually are enacted, a senior program official says.
"I think in both cases, the initial operating capability for the services is going to slide because you just aren't buying enough planes to fill the first squadrons," JSF Program Manager Rear Adm. Steven Enewold told Inside the Air Force last week. "If there's not enough operational test airplanes, there's a whole cascading of things that can happen."
Enewold said that cuts to the Pentagon's requested FY-07 funding level for the effort that were hatched in recent weeks by House and Senate authorizers would create a "production gap." The resulting chasm, according to Enewold, would hinder production of the initial batch of F-35s, which is slated to start in 2012.
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