Joint Strike Fighter : strong risk management essential as program enters most challenging phase : testimony before the Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives /
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is the Department of Defense's (DOD's) most costly acquisition, seeking to simultaneously develop, produce, and field three aircraft variants for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and eight international partners. The total expected U.S. investm...
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
U.S. Govt. Accountability Office,
[2009]
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| Series: | Testimony ;
GAO-09-711T. |
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| Online Access: | https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/LPS114516 |
| Summary: | The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is the Department of Defense's (DOD's) most costly acquisition, seeking to simultaneously develop, produce, and field three aircraft variants for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and eight international partners. The total expected U.S. investment is now more than $300 billion to develop and procure 2,456 aircraft over the next 25 years. GAO's most recent report in March of this year discussed increased development costs and schedule estimates, plans to accelerate procurement, manufacturing performance and delays, and development test strategy. A recurring theme in GAO's work has been concern about what GAO believes is undue concurrency of development, test, and production activities and the heightened risks it poses to achieving good cost, schedule, and performance outcomes. |
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| Item Description: | Congressional testimony. Title from title screen (GAO, viewed July 27, 2009). "For release ... May 20, 2009." Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (18 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |