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Justin Jaynes: GAO still concerned about DoD’s ramped up F-35 production

Seventeen years after the Defense Department first started development on the F-35 fighter jet, officials are ready to move the system into full-rate production.

June 25, 2018 11:53 am
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Seventeen years after the Defense Department first started development on the F-35 fighter jet, it’s finally approaching the point where officials are ready to move the system into full-rate production. After numerous delays, that decision is now expected in October 2019. But the Government Accountability Office said it is still concerned that the ramp-up in production might be premature, since the F-35 still has more than two dozen technical deficiencies that officials deem “critical.”

Justin Jaynes, assistant director for Contracting and National Security Acquisitions Issues at GAO, talked with Federal Drive with Tom Temin about their latest assessment of the most expensive weapons system in history.

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