GAO: Poor F-35 spare parts management, repair inhibiting warfighter requirements

By Courtney Albon / April 25, 2019 at 4:29 PM
A new Government Accountability Office report claims that the F-35 program's faulty planning and allocation of spare parts has contributed to an inability to meet warfighter requirements, and offers eight recommendations to improve the program's supply chain management. "F-35 aircraft performance is not meeting warfighter requirements," the April 25 report states . "While DOD is taking various actions to improve F-35 spare parts availability so that aircraft can fly and perform their missions, it will likely continue to struggle to...

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