more at
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/lockheed-gets-edict-to-cut-f-35s-dollar11-trillion-support-bill/ar-AAvwKUb?li=BBnbfcL
stealth fighter.
The $1.1 trillion estimate to sustain the U.S. F-35 fleet through 2077 was
not been updated, according to the Selected Acquisition Report, or SAR, obtained
by Bloomberg News. The Pentagon said this week that the estimate will be updated
next year before acquisition officials meet to decide whether the program should
enter full-production.
Although the estimate is unchanged, the acquisition report focused at length on
the importance of reducing the $1.1 trillion figure as well comments from the
F-35 program office pointing out what it said are shortcomings of the
independent estimate.
last week that the U.S. Air Force may have to cut its F-35 purchases by
support costs by as much as 38 percent over a decade.
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