A top-level Pentagon review board on Monday will examine the multibillion-dollar Joint Strike Fighter program with a major topic of discussion being the cost of maintaining the aircraft through its lifetime, a figure that is now pegged at $1.1 trillion. The Defense Acquisition Board will hold an interim program review of the JSF effort with the results helping to inform the fiscal year 2015 budget. The annual review was put in place after the program experienced a Nunn-McCurdy cost breach...
