Following Major Program Review, Carter Says He's 'Not Happy' With F-35 'Situation'

By Jason Sherman / December 1, 2010 at 5:06 PM
NEW YORK -- The Pentagon's acquisition executive today expressed displeasure at the state of the Joint Strike Fighter program in his first public comments on the F-35 following a pre-Thanksgiving Day review of the F-35 by senior Defense Department officials. “I am not happy with the situation we find ourselves in now,” Ashton Carter, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said at a gathering of investors organized by the investment bank Credit Suisse and Aviation Week...

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