Slight Software Schedule Slip For Joint Strike Fighter Program

By Lee Hudson / June 13, 2013 at 7:50 PM
The Joint Strike Fighter's critical design review for software has slipped about 45 days, along with other minor slips to the program, but the program is not facing any scheduling problems that fundamentally changes its plans, the Pentagon's acquisition chief said today. The 45-day slip is measured against the schedule that was created for the program when it suffered a Nunn-McCurdy breach in 2010, Frank Kendall, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told reporters today during a media...

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