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In September, the UK Ministry of Defence is due to decide whether the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers, to be built under the CVF programme, will be designed to […]

The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programme office will this month seek formal approval from the US Department of Defense for the revised, delayed schedule for development of the Lockheed Martin [...]

Justin Wastnage / Oslo BYLINE: Eurofighter is still an option as firms back JSF exit strategy Norwegian aerospace and defence contractors have created a Joint Strike Fighter exit strategy. Over [...]

The Pentagon has been engaged in talks with other nations over including them in their Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) engineering and manufacturing development phase.

The CLIMATIC final stage of the US Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) competition is to begin on 15 April, with the release of a request for information (RFI) to the Boeing [...]

Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The Joint Strike Fighter programme is coming under threat from three sides.The engineers' strike at Boeing is pushing back the X-32 concept demonstrator's (CD) first flight; the [...]

Poland's Air Force has committed to acquiring 48 new F-16 multi-role fighter aircraft as part of a strategy that paves the way for shifting to the Joint Strike Fighter. The $3.5 billion deal, which was reached with Lockheed Martin Corp., is designed to provide a replacement fleet for Poland's aging MiG-21 fighter aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force proposed on Sept. 12 to reduce development funds for the Joint Strike Fighter program by hundreds of millions of dollars between 2004 and 2009. The Office of the Secretary of Defense ordered the service to present a new plan.

Lockheed Martin is looking to win an engineering and manufacturing contract from the U.S. Defense Department and the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense in 2001. Lockheed Martin officials say they are researching special applications that center on electronic attack and directed-energy weapons that would meet the Joint Strike Fighter deployment scheduled for 2008.

The Defense Department has brought together an independent panel to review the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program in light of concerns that either Lockheed Martin or Boeing will be chosen to build all 3,000 fighters and how it could affect the 'losing' bidder. Plans call for choosing either the Lockheed Martin or Boeing design, with the work to be divided between both companies. However, industry officials are concerned about how the tactical aircraft industrial base goal would be preserved.

Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) team is concentrating its Aircraft Affordability Demonstration (AAD) program on lean manufacturing techniques in order to lower JSF production costs and cut build time per aircraft. A technology demonstration by workers at Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems (LMTAS) in Fort Worth, TX, has been completed utilizing a wing carry-through assembly similar to one intended for the carry-based version of the JSF that is being designed for the US Navy. The AAD initiative is one of a planned series of demonstrations by LMTAS intended to reduce production costs and cut the risk in preparing for the Enginnering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) phase of the JSF program.

US Marine Corps (USMC) officials are concerned about the near-term plans for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Even though the US Air Force (USAF) appears to have successfully staved off congressional attacks on the F-22 program, the move has angered the USMC since the F-22 was connected to the JSF at a time when the House of Representatives were proposing to delay production of the stealth fighter. This move could kill the F-22 program and result in USAF officials saying that the JSF would have to be revised to include some of the F-22's air-to-air capability. One of the crucial technologies on the JSF and F-22 are Pratt & Whitney F119 engines.

Criticism of the Defense Department's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) has surfaced before the report's release. Senator John McCain says the QDR should have made greater cuts in tactical aircraft spending, made deeper cuts in Army and National Guard forces and lack of preparation for new threats. David Chu of the Rand Corp predicts the Pentagon will not be able to maintain a no-growth budget.

Officials express concern over financial implications on the ongoing U.S. joint fighter program due to a weak dollar against the strong Euro.

The last quarter of 2006 would witness last-minute efforts by the US and European consortiums to sway Turkey's up-to-US$10-billion purchase of about 100 new-generation fighter aircraft, as the country's top defense panel is preparing to meet in October 2006 for final discussions on the fighter choice. The government in Ankara revealed that it could opt for the US-led F-35 Lightning II, formerly the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the Eurofighter group's Typhoon, or a combination of both.

Lockheed Martin has decided to subcontract about 40% of the training portion of the Joint Strike Fighter program. The contracts will be widely distributed and are worth about $312 million.

There is a possibility--distant as yet--that the young pilots and maintainers of 2030 may look at the F-35 with puzzlement and wonder why it has that big open bay behind […]

This article discusses the deliberations of the British Royal Navy over its choice of a version of the Joint Strike Fighter. The service can choose either a conventional carrier version or a vertical landing model (STOVL).

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. will hire 4,500 engineers for its Joint Strike Fighter development program if it gets the contract; about 40% of the hires will be recent graduates. Engineer Kyle Franklin discusses his experience.

A Turkish Defense Ministry briefing document in 2000 says that Turkey plans to invest up to $1 billion over 11 years in the development of the U.S.-British Joint Strike Fighter Program.

The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is expected to gain additional and more up-t0-date radar jamming aircraft following the Pentagon's report on lessons learned from the Kosovo air campaign. The analysis of the conflict is being closely held and during the time until it is completed in September, defense officials have been ordered not to discuss it. According to a senior defense official, the Lockheed Martin and Boeing JSF teams are both 'assuming the report will affect them even though as yet there has been no infusion of new requirements.' It is believed that the JSF platform is going to become a replacement for the EA-6B (Prowler radar-jamming aircraft) so planners should start to make provisions for it. Additionally two new studies are also expected to have an influence upon the direction of development of the electronic warfare (EW) and the speed with which new requirements for a JSF EW aircraft will appear.