The Defense Department has laid out a monthly milestone system for the Joint Strike Fighter program, in which the prime contractor Lockheed Martin will be fined $10 million every month it is behind schedule, the Pentagon's top weapons-buyer told lawmakers today. DOD acquisition chief John Young's testimony came in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee following a release of a portion of a 2007 Defense Contract Management Agency report that stated the Pentagon has found Lockheed Martin's aeronautics division...
