{"id":180418,"date":"2017-04-24T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/24\/rinse-lather-repeat-f-35-edition\/"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:13:00","slug":"rinse-lather-repeat-f-35-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/24\/rinse-lather-repeat-f-35-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Rinse, Lather, Repeat: F-35 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The GAO is now saying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/news\/articles\/gao-warns-of-one-year-17-billion-delay-for-f-35-436494\/\">software issues will add $1.7 billion to the cost and a year to the development schedule of the F-35 Lightning II<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Development testing of the Lockheed Martin F-35 could be delayed by 12 months and cost another $1.7 billion, the US Government Accountability Office (GA0) warns in a new report published on 24 April.<\/p>\n<p>In a report submitted to the US Congress, the GAO says that the F-35\u2019s government managers at the joint programme office (JPO) have adopted an \u201coptimistic\u201d estimate for a five-month delay and $532 million cost overrun to complete Block 3F software, the fifth and final software release to support the 15-year-long system development and demonstration phase of the family of stealth fighters.<\/p>\n<p>GAO\u2019s analysis based on historical data suggests Block 3F testing won\u2019t be complete until May 2018, or 12 months later than currently scheduled. The GAO\u2019s anticipated or cost growth of $1.7 billion would raise overall development programme costs to $56.8 billion, $22.4 billion higher than the original budget at contract award in October 2001.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sort of clusterf%$# has become so common for the F-35 that I&#8217;m not sure if it even qualifies as news these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GAO is now saying that software issues will add $1.7 billion to the cost and a year to the development schedule of the F-35 Lightning II: Development testing of the Lockheed Martin F-35 could be delayed by 12 months and cost another $1.7 billion, the US Government Accountability Office (GA0) warns in a new &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,381,588,533],"class_list":["post-180418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-defense-procurement","tag-fail","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}