When the Pentagon next updates the cost information on its major weapon systems, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program will show a roughly 4 percent unit cost increase. The cost growth, to be ...

The U.K.'s F-35 fighter jet program costs will be "significantly higher" than the British government has publicly acknowledged, the country's public spending watchdog has said. Over the life span of ...

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program has made strong strides by delivering and flying the first developmental aircraft, a new U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says, but there ...

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The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a fifth-generation, multirole fighter jet developed through a multinational program led by the United States, with several allied countries participating as ...

Lockheed Martin's F-35 is widely recognized as a top fighter jet. However, the program has been troubled by cost and readiness concerns for years. The makers of this fifth-generation aircraft told BI ...

Because of the “learning curve” and other problems in the Pentagon’s Selected Acquisition Reports (discussed in my prior post), objective observers need to find better data for measuring the cost of ...

The F-35 program cost $1.7T but early deployments exposed low readiness rates and immature software. The Zumwalt destroyer cost over $4B per ship but its main gun became unusable due to $1M per round ...

Reintegrating Turkey into the F-35 program could lower costs, improve NATO airpower, and contain Russian influence, if Ankara complies with safeguards on its S-400 system and realigns with alliance ...

War is an expensive endeavor. Cost has been attached to conflict since antiquity, as weapons, training, and logistics aren’t ...