thursday,march 21, 2013 - County Times - Southern Maryland Online
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The <strong>County</strong> <strong>Times</strong><br />
NAVY NEWS<br />
Thursday, March <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2013</strong> 22<br />
By Guy Leonard<br />
Staff Writer<br />
While the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter project has done a<br />
better job reaching management and cost objectives, the U.S.<br />
Government Accountability Office is still worried about its<br />
long term affordability.<br />
“Going forward, ensuring affordability — the ability to<br />
acquire aircraft in quantity and to sustain them over the life<br />
cycle — is of paramount concern,” according to the report<br />
released this month. “The program continues to incur financial<br />
risk from its plan to procure 289 aircraft for $57.8 billion<br />
before completing development flight testing. Meanwhile, the<br />
services are spending about $8 billion to extend the life of<br />
existing aircraft and to buy new ones to mitigate shortfalls<br />
due to F-35 delays.”<br />
The F-35 project is one of the most critical for Navy, Air<br />
Force and Marine Corps as it will replace hundreds of older<br />
aircraft.<br />
The country has invested $400 billion in the aircraft<br />
project to develop and acquire almost 2,500 units through<br />
2037.<br />
“The F-35 program has been extensively restructured<br />
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over the last three years to address prior cost, schedule and<br />
performance problems,” the GAO report stated.<br />
The report highlights improvements in the program,<br />
though, as the F-35’s manufacturing and testing protocols are<br />
getting better.<br />
But there is still much work to be done.<br />
“With about one-third of development flight testing<br />
completed, much testing remains to demonstrate and verify<br />
F-35 performance,” the report states. “Software management<br />
practices are improved, but with significant challenges ahead<br />
as software integration and testing continue to behind plans.”<br />
One of the key problems has been with the advanced<br />
technology pilot’s helmet that does away with traditional<br />
heads-up displays in legacy aircraft.<br />
The helmet provides targeting displays as well as information<br />
on flight and other sensor data within and without the<br />
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“The original helmet mounted display encountered significant<br />
technical deficiencies and did not meet warfighter<br />
requirements,” the report stated, adding that the program had<br />
made “considerable” progress in fixing this and several other<br />
problems.<br />
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In all the report showed that costs for the F-35 project<br />
were trending towards projections, and manufacturing had<br />
become more efficient.<br />
Also aircraft were coming on line faster and deliveries<br />
of units were coming much closer to contracted delivery<br />
months.<br />
guyleonard@countytimes.net<br />
explained.<br />
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Navy Library patrons may register<br />
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clicking on the "Reference" heading in the<br />
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