F-35 Lightning II

documents

JSFPO Deficiency Report Metrics 28 February 2020 F-35 Aircraft Sustainment: DoD Needs to Address Substantial Supply Chain Challenges Readiness for Formal Entry into F-35 Initial Operational Test and Evaluation F 35 Affordability Strategy JSFPO Deficiency Review Board Minutes, 04 June 2018

letters

Defense Policy Bill Should Enhance Accountability and Reduce Costs Congress Needs to Demand More Accountability for F-35 Replacement Parts POGO Urges Congress to Make Future F-35 Spending Contingent on Correcting Known Design Flaws POGO to Defense Bill Conferees: Increase Accountability and Strengthen Pentagon Spending Oversight POGO Tells National Defense Authorization Act Conferees to Prioritize Troops and Taxpayers, Not Contractors POGO to Congress: Don't Change Testing Standards POGO Urges Air Force to Delay F-35 Basing Decision Groups From Right to Left Call on Congress and the President to Find Savings at the Pentagon POGO Letter to Senators Levin and McCain regarding the Pentagon request for multiple fixed wing aircraft as part of the FY 2007 Emergency Supplemental Request for the Global War on Terror

resources

Fact Sheet: Close Air Support Capability in Jeopardy POGO Recommendations for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

Latest

The Bunker: Unaffordable, Unattritable, Unacceptable

analysis | March 15, 2023

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The F-35 Program Stalled in 2022

analysis | February 23, 2023

The Bunker: Tarnished Silver Bullets

analysis | February 22, 2023
The Bridge: Why is the Air Force Phasing Out a Crucial F-35 Training?

analysis | February 16, 2023
The Bunker: About Those Awfully Slow Tanks

analysis | February 1, 2023
Documents Show Air Force Leaders Shirking Their Close Air Support Responsibilities

investigation | February 1, 2023
Pentagon Seeks More Money for Beleaguered F-35

analysis | November 21, 2022
The Bunker: Double-Barreled Blast at Pentagon Procurement

analysis | November 16, 2022
The Bridge: Failure to Launch

analysis | September 29, 2022
Use of Chinese Material in F-35 Highlights Pentagon’s Complexity Problem

analysis | September 16, 2022