Dan Crowley, Lockheed Martin’s general manager for the F-35 strike fighter, will stay on in his job, company CEO Robert Stevens said Thursday, thereby settling weeks of speculation ever since the Pentagon fired its F-35 program manager over schedule slips and cost increases in the program. Stevens, speaking via telecon to reporters following an annual summit of the F-35 partner nations, said he has bolstered his F-35 management team with many new “subject matter experts” and replaced some others. But Crowley isn’t one of them. “I have known and worked with Dan for a very long time now and find him to be an extraordinarily dedicated and talented complete executive, very much grounded in the kind of integrity and ethics in business conduct that I personally admire,” Stevens said. He added, “I have absolute confidence in him in this role.” (See From 30 to 13 above)
Due to the prolonged delay in deliveries of the Tech Refresh 3 version of the F-35 fighter, Denmark is pulling six of its TR-2-configured F-35 jets stationed in the U.S. back to home base in order to consolidate aircraft and get better training for its pilots and maintainers, the Danish…