F-35 Lightning II

documents

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

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

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Deceptive Pentagon Math Tries to Obscure $100 Million+ Price Tag for F-35s

analysis | November 1, 2019 | Dan Grazier

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Officers Advocating for More F-35s Often Had Financial Stakes

analysis | August 19, 2019 | Mandy Smithberger

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PODCAST: Advising Foreign Forces with “Chipp” Naylon

analysis | August 13, 2019 | Dan Grazier
F-35 Test Fleet Struggling with Low Readiness Rates

investigation | August 6, 2019 | Dan Grazier
Historically High Pentagon Spending Creates a Hollow Force

analysis | August 6, 2019 | Dan Grazier
PODCAST: Tactical Decision Games with Bruce Gudmundsson and Don Vandergriff

analysis | July 3, 2019 | Dan Grazier
The F-35 and the Captured State

analysis | June 10, 2019 | Dan Grazier
PODCAST: Classifying John Boyd with Chuck Spinney

analysis | May 23, 2019 | Dan Grazier
Basing F-35s in Burlington, Vermont, Raises Significant Questions

testimony | May 7, 2019 | Dan Grazier
Smaller Budgets Will Result in a More Effective Military

testimony | April 10, 2019 | Dan Grazier