Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Another look at the F-35

The GAO has been reviewing the development of the F-35 each year for the past four years. This year they focused on developmental flight testing. This deals extensively with testing of software. Of course, in order to test software you have to have it in-house. Well, as has been the pattern for several years, software is late (now it looks like 13 months late)and it doesn't do the job required.  So, costs rise. 

Not only do development costs rise, so do operational costs. These costs are now estimated to exceed $1 trillion.

When is DOD going to kill this boondoggle?

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