January 18, 2017 The chairman of a key subcontractor in the F-35 program told Bloomberg News Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump wants to reduce the cost of the project by at least 10 percent. “We’ve been told through Lockheed that the president has an ambition to reduce the cost of the aircraft by a material […]
By Tom Vanden Brook Jan. 27, 2017 Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has ordered the Pentagon to launch a review on how to save costs on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the Pentagon’s most costly weapons-buying effort in history. Mattis’ memo, sent on Thursday, also calls on the military to determine whether the F-18 fighter can […]
By Mandy Smithberger January 30, 2017 Following President Donald Trump’s announcement today that Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from the F-35 program, Dan Grazier, the Jack Shanahan Fellow at POGO’s Straus Military Reform Project, said: “Although this appears to be a victory for those concerned about out-of-control costs of the F-35 program, these savings […]
by Valerie Insinna January 31, 2017 An update to the US Air Force’s 2017 wish list bumps its unfunded requirements to $10.6 billion, with the service seeking funding for more F-35s and a light attack aircraft experiment, among other new efforts. Congress has not passed a defense spending bill for 2017, opting instead to extend […]
By Ewen MacAskill Feb. 4, 2017 Britain is being forced to pour millions of pounds of new funds into the troubled F-35 stealth fighter programme being developed in America and considered a vital part of the UK’s future defences. The F-35, being built by the US in partnership with countries including the UK, is the […]
By David Swanson November 2, 2016 Imagine if a local business in your town invented a brand new tool that was intended to have an almost magical effect thousands of miles away. However, where the tool was kept and used locally became an area unsafe for children. Children who got near this tool tended to […]
DECEMBER 14, 2016 Navy Contaminates Coupeville Wells from Navy OLF Training Site Residents Warned Against Drinking, Preparing Food with Their Water The Navy has delivered bottled water and warnings to the first of what may be many homes with contaminated drinking water that are located in the area of the Navy’s Outlying Field (OLF) near […]
By Craig Whitlock and Bob Woodward December 5, 2016 The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post. Pentagon leaders had […]
By Damian Paletta and Doug Cameron December 12, 2016 Donald Trump took aim at the Pentagon’s costliest program on Monday, saying on Twitter the “program and cost” of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter “is out of control.” This is the second defense program in recent days the president-elect has unloaded on for cost issues. Last […]
By Kyle Midura December 12, 2016 The battle over bringing the F-35 fighter jet to Burlington took a turn Monday with a tweet by President-elect Donald Trump. Just before a pair of F-35s touched down in Israel, a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump sent the manufacturer’s stock into a free-fall. “The F-35 program and cost […]