The discussion revolves around the implications of the F-35 program breaching the Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds, exploring the potential impacts on the program's future, technological challenges, and historical context in aircraft production.
Participants do not appear to reach a consensus on the reasons behind the F-35 program's issues, with multiple competing views on the causes of the delays and the implications of the Nunn-McCurdy breach remaining unresolved.
The discussion includes references to historical patterns in aircraft production and budgetary constraints, but lacks detailed analysis of specific technological issues affecting the F-35.
It's Official: The F-35 program has incurred a major breach of Nunn-McCurdy cost-monitoring thresholds and, per US law, will have to be recertified as sound to continue, Defense Department acquisition executive Ash Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday. http://www.airforce-magazine.com/Pages/default.aspx"
Cyrus said:Great thread idea MotoH. I read this on my AIAA email newsletter. Sad, but not unexpected if you know your aircraft production history...
Cyrus said:Huh?
http://www.airforce-magazine.com/Pages/default.aspx"No Fanfare: In a routine senior officer announcement, the Pentagon revealed that Vice Adm. David Venlet would fill the F-35 hot seat. How hot? Ash Carter, the Pentagon acquisition guru, just revealed the F-35 would indeed breach Nunn-McCurdy and the Air Force likely would not field its first operational F-35 unit until 2016—about three years late—as would the Navy. contd.
A number of Northrop Grumman’s top innovators are being mysteriously replaced without any clues about where they are going. Are they being fired, retired? Don’t you believe it. They are being cloistered to win the next combat aviation prize. http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blog...plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest"
http://www.xe.com/news/2010/07/01/1...utm_content=NOGEO&utm_campaign=News_RSS_Art1"PARIS, July 1 (Reuters) - France's defence budget will be cut by 3.5 billion euros ($4.28 billion) in 2011-2013, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, as part of a government drive to reduce public spending.
However, France's Defence Ministry hopes the overall amount cut could fall to 1.5 billion euros thanks to income of around 2 billion euros from the sale of barracks and telecoms frequencies, said the source.
The budget will come to 30.1 billion euros in 2011 as in 2010, 30.5 billion euros in 2012 and 31 billion euros in 2013.