The Weekly Debrief: 20 Years Later, JSF Bidding War Still Offers Lessons

Lockheed Martin F-35s
Credit: Eglin Air Force Base
Twenty years after winning the Joint Strike Fighter contract, Rick Rezabek still remembers a mistake Lockheed Martin made at the beginning of the design for the X-35. The Battle of the X-Planes—pitting the X-35 against the Boeing X-32 in a dramatic, high-stakes competition for the trillion-dollar...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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