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Thursday, June 07, 2012

US Senators concerned about JSF software and modifications

F-35 Lightning IIThe U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) questioned the Joint Strike Fighter Program during the preparations and debate about the National Defense authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013.

Key items were serious concerns about “potentially serious issues with its electronic warfare capability”, about the production quality and the ever increasing pricelevel.

Also the high modicifaction costs caused by overlap between development and production (US$ 18 to US$ 25 millionmodification costs per aircraft) is a growing concern.

The SASC promised continuation of “strong oversight of the F–35 program, including concurrency, software development, production, and testing”.


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