Joint Strike Fighter EMD

Abstract

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program will develop and field a family of aircraft that meets the needs of the USN, USAF, USMC and allies, with maximum commonality among the variants, consistent with National Disclosure Policy, to minimize life cycle costs. This is a joint program with no executive service. Navy and Air Force each provide approximately equal shares of annual funding to the program. The United Kingdom, seven (7) other International countries, and four (4) Foreign Military Sales cases are participants in the JSF program. The top-line Program Element reflects USAF F-35A Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL) budgetary information, only; however, funding at the accomplishment/planned program level is reported in total (all services and partners) as the activities support all aircraft variants. Within the Navy contribution is a roughly equal contribution of annual funding by the USN and USMC. The SDD Budget funds a total quantity of 20 RDT&E test articles to include 6 ground test articles and 14 flight test articles for Navy and Air Force use. The following fiscal year phasing of the flight test aircraft reflects the schedule first flight of each flight test asset or production line roll out of each ground test asset: FY07: 1 Conventional Take Off and Landing (CTOL) flight test article FY08: 1 Short Take Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) flight test article); 1 STOVL ground test article FY09: 1 STOVL flight test article; 2 CTOL ground test articles FY10: 6 flight test articles: 3 CTOL, 2 STOVL, 1 Carrier Variants (CV); 3 ground test articles: 1 STOVL, 2 CV FY11: 4 flight test articles: 1 CTOL, 1 STOVL, 2 CV FY12: 1 CV flight test article BA5 - This program is in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it has passed Milestone B approval and is conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirements prior to full-rate production.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
0604800F_5_3600_PB_2012
Change Summary Explanation
Significant changes to schedule reflect program restructure resulting from a critical Nunn-McCurdy breach and Acquisition Decision Memorandum guidance (dated 2 Jun 2010). In FY10, $8.649M for General Congressional Reduction. In FY12, $270.071M was moved from PE 0207142F, "Joint Strike Fighter Squadrons", to PE 0604800F, "Joint Strike Fighter EMD". This funding was erroneously requested in PE 0207142F, "Joint Strike Fighter Squadrons" in the FY11PB. $89.431M was added to the program due to the Nunn-McCurdy restructure.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Flight Testing
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Procurement
  • Propulsion Systems
  • Short Takeoff Aircraft
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).

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