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GAO: JSF Program 'Unexecutable'

Cost Increases $10 Billion In One Year

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, as it stands right now, is "unexecutable."

That word comes from the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, which says development costs alone shot up $10 billion over the past year -- $4.9 billion of that spent correcting a weight problem.

As ANN reported almost a year ago, the F-35, meant as a low-cost vanilla stealth aircraft for the US and its allies, was too heavy for British aircraft carriers. Now that the weight problem has apparently been solved, the program that was supposed to have cost about $100 million a month will now cost $1 billion a month, according to the GAO.

"While delays are never welcomed, time taken by DOD now to gain more knowledge and reduce risk before increasing its investment may well save time and money later," the report said, quoted by the Washington Post. "Now is the time to get the strategy right."

The Pentagon says it's way ahead of the GAO -- that it's addressed all of the issues raised by the report. "Much progress has been made since last year. The F-35 has resolved its weight problem," said Lockheed spokesman Jeff Adams in an interview with the Post.

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