F-35 full-rate production decision expected by March 2024 under updated APB

By Briana Reilly / June 17, 2022 at 3:15 PM
The F-35 program is poised to reach its long-delayed, full-rate production decision by March 2024 under an updated acquisition program baseline that recently won approval, a Pentagon spokeswoman told Inside Defense . Previously slated for March 2021 , the new timeline for FRP comes after the Defense Department’s acquisition chief signed off on the APB last month, spokeswoman Jessica Maxwell wrote in an email this week. The latest schedule, she noted, “has an updated milestone C and full rate production...

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