Posted on Apr 27, 2021
DoD Weighs More ‘Organic’ F-35 Maintenance; Bartering With Lockheed
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DoD is considering how the services might take over more of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s maintenance chores from Lockheed Martin in order to reduce costs. The study of future sustainment options is one of a number of efforts by DoD’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), prime contractor Lockheed Martin and engine-maker Pratt & Whitney to get a handle of the program’s myriad issues. These range the jet’s sky high operating costs, to chronic spare parts shortages, to its deeply-troubled ALIS maintenance software, to a potential shortfall of F135 engines, to Block 4 software delays.
DoD Weighs More ‘Organic’ F-35 Maintenance; Bartering With Lockheed
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Wait a 'sec... you mean that instead of training military mechanics how to repair the bird the DOD has been letting the manufacturer do the repairs with civilian mechanics? The civilian Union mechanic? The mechanic who strikes for ever higher wages and benefits while our military mechanics who get paid perhaps less than half get to watch and then sign off on the repairs? No wonder the cost if the plane is so high and now the military wants to ground it for good, according to some reports.
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