AF chief: F-35 could breach Nunn-McCurdy limits

[unhappycamper]

AF chief: F-35 could breach Nunn-McCurdy limits
By John Reed - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Feb 18, 2010 21:47:48 EST

ORLANDO, Fla. — The F-35 Lightning II fighter jet program might breach the Nunn-McCurdy limits on unit cost growth, said Air Force Gen. Norton Schwartz, the service’s chief of staff.

“I would say it is a possibility and maybe even (be) likely,” Schwartz told reporters at the Air Force Association’s air warfare symposium.

Schwartz did not say what changes might be in store for the program if it does breach the limits set in the Nunn-McCurdy statute.

A spokesman for JSF program leader Lockheed Martin said the company had not been informed of any breach and was working to keep costs down.

On Feb. 1, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a dramatic reorganization of the JSF program that included extending the jet’s test schedule until 2015, shifting billions into F-35 testing, cutting procurement funds for the plane, withholding more than $600 million from JSF-maker Lockheed Martin and firing the Pentagon's F-35 program manager, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. David Heinz.


Rest of article about this $239 million dollar wonder at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/02/military_021810_jsf_breach_web/

[Sherman A1]

1. They will likely just rename it the F35B

and they will then have a new airplane and new limits.

[Angleae]

2. The F-35B is the VTOL version the USMC/UK/Italy/Spain want.

Plus the limit is on the project as authorized by congress. To change the project they need to go back to congress anyway.

[Sherman A1]

3. Oh, they will find a way to get around the limits

I have great faith in them.

[Angleae]

6. They'll just go to congress and have them change the limits.

Just like they always do (F-22, LCS, San Antonio, etc)

[Statistical]

4. Where do you get $239 million from? Flyaway cost is 1/3rd that. n/t

[Hutzpa]

5. See, this is what I don't understand

with leechers, it's like the government closes one waste management (F-22) and here they are
trying to open up another waste management e.g F-35. :banghead:

:wtf: