Top Pentagon official takes aim at F-35 cost, supply chain
By: Aaron Mehta, March 23, 2017 (Photo Credit: Lockheed Martin)
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s director of defense pricing announced plans Wednesday for a major review of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program costs, with an emphasis on getting companies up and down the supply chain to find savings for the famously expensive jet.
Shay Assad, who has led the industry-focused defense pricing office since 2011, used his speech at the McAleese and Associates annual conference to announce that he is working with Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, the F-35 program head, to develop a “deep dive” on the cost of the F-35 — not what the Pentagon is paying per plane but rather what it should be paying up and down the supply chain.
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