Joint Strike Fighter: Strong Risk Management Essential as Program Enters Most Challenging Phase

Abstract

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is the Department of Defense's (DOD's) most costly acquisition, seeking to simultaneously develop, produce, and field three aircraft variants for the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and eight international partners. The total expected U.S. investment is now more than $300 billion to develop and procure 2,456 aircraft over the next 25 years. GAO's most recent report in March of this year discussed increased development costs and schedule estimates, plans to accelerate procurement, manufacturing performance and delays, and development test strategy. A recurring theme in GAO's work has been concern about what GAO believes is undue concurrency of development, test, and production activities and the heightened risks it poses to achieving good cost, schedule, and performance outcomes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 20, 2009
Accession Number
ADA499592

Entities

People

  • Michael Sullivan

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cost Reimbursement Contracts
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Fixed Price Contracts
  • Governments
  • Manufacturing
  • Procurement
  • Risk
  • Risk Management
  • Short Takeoff Aircraft
  • United States Government

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  • Economics
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security