Pratt & Whitney received a $762.5 million modification to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive fee contract for F-35 fighter engines on Nov. 22. The modification funds 48 F135-100 engines for Air Force F-35A aircraft, and 10 F135-600 engines for Marine Corps F-35B aircraft. The Air ...
The Air Force’s biggest F-35 operating base recently unveiled its new $45 million runway, bringing to a close a nine-month project that sent the base’s F-35s to other locations across the world. While construction was underway, Hill sent its F-35s to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, ...
The mission capable rates achieved by F-35s across all users have increased sharply, thanks mainly to more parts in the pipeline, more rapid repair of parts at depots, and reliability and maintainability investments by the Defense Department and its industry partners on the program, Pentagon ...
New suppliers have been found for all but a dozen of the 850 parts Turkey is now making for the F-35, and most of the work is going to Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney, company and program officials told a House Armed Services panel ...
The F-35 is making progress but still faces major hurdles with its logistics system, intellectual property, supply chain, and more, officials overseeing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program told lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Nov. 13. Program leadership laid out a path to turn one ...
The Air Force next month will roll out two initial batches of technology intended to help the F-22 and F-35 “talk,” and to provide a fuller picture of US combat assets in a particular area. Starting in December, the service plans to demonstrate a new ...
Lawmakers are trying to compromise on a fiscal 2020 defense policy bill as a new, slimmed-down version offers a fallback option. Architect of the Capitol photo via Twitter. A slimmed-down version of the fiscal 2020 defense policy bill recently introduced...
The 158th Fighter Wing received its first two F-35 Lightning IIs during an event at the Vermont Air National Guard Base, South Burlington, Vt., on Sept. 19, 2019. Air National Guard photo by TSgt. Ryan Campbell. The unit cost of...
An F-35 Lightning II sits at a Vermont Air National Guard event in South Burlington, Vt., Sept. 19, 2019. Air National Guard photo by TSgt. Ryan Campbell. Lockheed Martin on Oct. 28 received an approximately $7 billion award to build...
An F-35A from the 56th Fighter Wing, performs a pass Oct. 1, 2019, at Luke AFB, Ariz. Air Force photo by A1C Leala Marquez The $34 billion contract covering production Lots 12-14 of the F-35 fighter—encompassing some 478 aircraft—should be...
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen ?Lord holds a press briefing to update media on acquisition, reform, and innovation at the Pentagon, Aug. 26, 2019. DOD photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class James Lee. The Pentagon’s decision to start full-rate production of...