House and Senate appropriators are concerned the F-35 joint program office is not awarding contracts for the jets they fund each year "in a timely manner" and are pointing to the program executive officer's contracting strategy as the problem. In its proposal for a fiscal year 2017 omnibus defense spending bill, which was released early this morning, the House Appropriations Committee questions F-35 Joint Strike Fighter PEO Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan's contracting approach and calls for a briefing on his...
