F-35 Program Executive Officer Vice Adm. Mat Winter told reporters this week he expects the time frame to complete negotiations for the Joint Strike Fighter's 11th low-rate initial production lot will be much shorter than the LRIP 10 deal, which took more than a year to finalize. The program office is working with prime contractor Lockheed Martin to finalize the details of an LRIP 11 contract, which would buy 141 F-35s, beginning in 2019. The lot will include 91 jets...
