The estimated price tag for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program pierced the $400 billion mark in a new report to Congress, an upward revision that accounts for related funding previously not tallied in the acquisition cost and a reminder of how far the project has strayed from the original 2002 promise to deliver the stealth fleet for $199 billion. On Sept. 23, the Defense Department released the F-35 JSF Selected Acquisition Report for fiscal year 2021 that estimates the...
