GAO Estimates F-35 Retrofit Costs At $1.7B
Government auditors estimate that “rework” costs for the first lots of F-35 aircraft will total nearly $1 billion, owing to the Pentagon’s strategy of developing and buying the single-engine, stealthy fighter at the same time. These costs are referred to by program officials as “concurrency,”...
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