The Pentagon Wants $500 Million More To Finish F-35 Development

Courtesy of Lockheed Martin

Bloomberg: The Lockheed F-35 Needs Another Half Billion Dollars

* Pentagon officials says funds to be requested in next budget
* Testing director ‘very strongly’ urges restructuring program

The Pentagon will need as much as $530 million extra to finish the development phase for Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35, the most expensive U.S. weapons system ever, defense officials said.

The F-35 program office made the request for more money to complete development, which is supposed to be in its last stretch after 15 years, during a closed-door review last month by the Defense Acquisition Board, according to the officials.

The Defense Department and the military services that are counting on the three versions of the F-35 are assessing how to pay for a request that would go into the department’s fiscal 2018 budget proposal. Approving the added funds would probably be the first F-35 decision to reach the desk of the next defense secretary.

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