F-35 Risk during Department of Defense Financial Crisis

Abstract

The current United States budget crisis could impact every program from Social Security to the Department of Defense. The financial crisis presents the Air Force with a great opportunity to re-evaluate the F-35A Lightning II fighter portfolio. In the Fiscal Year 2013 Air Force portion of the President's Budget request, the Air Force reduced F-35A production by 66 aircraft between FYs 2013-2016, but it did not reduce the overall total requirement of 1,763 aircraft. This paper will analyze the risks of the F-35A program as it relates to the Quadrennial Defense Review using the risk framework outlined in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review to include institutional risk, operational risk, force management risk, and future challenges risk. While analyzing the risk, it also is important to examine the F-35A program's changes in terms of their implications for achieving the new DoD Strategic Guidance. The author concludes that the F-35A can achieve the new strategic objectives in the DoD Strategic Guidance despite the risk of moving F-35A procurement to future years.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA589310

Entities

People

  • Christopher J. Dejesus

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Personnel
  • Air Power
  • Aircrafts
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Governments
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Procurement
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

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