Although the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's operational suitability is lower than desired by its users -- and though it still has a long way to go in achieving the program's availability goals -- the platform has shown improvement in almost all suitability measures over the last year, according to the Pentagon's top weapons tester. J. Michael Gilmore, director of operational test and evaluation for the Defense Department, wrote in his annual report to Congress that aircraft availability hovered around 51...
