Lockheed Plans $1 Billion Spending Blitz For F-35 Spares

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Credit: U.S. Marine Corps
Lockheed Martin will spend $1 billion to stockpile spare parts for the F-35, making up for a shortfall that the company believes was caused by government underfunding, CEO Jim Taiclet said on a Jan. 29 earnings call. “Over, I’ll say, a few prior years, there was, in our opinion, some underfunding of...
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