The F-35 joint program office is seeking to ensure a major role for small business in the program’s sustainment phase. Amanda Gentry, the F-35 science and technology lead, told Inside Defense in an interview this week that the program office today is pursuing small businesses with promising technology to improve the aircraft. But the office has a limited ability to directly buy from these companies. That, she said, will likely change in the future. “The program office strategy right...
