GAO issues scathing report on Lockheed Martin’s F-35 debacle

By Tom Rogan

Published September 21, 2023 8:16pm ET

GAO issues scathing report on Lockheed Martin’s F-35 debacle — A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II performs a demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, east of Paris, Tuesday, June 20, 2017. On Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, a Marine Corps pilot safely ejected from an F-35 Lightning II over North Charleston, S.C. The search for his missing aircraft was focused on two lakes north of North Charleston, military officials said. | (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

“The F-35 fleet mission capable rate — the percentage of time the aircraft can perform one of its tasked missions — was about 55% in March 2023, far below program goals.”

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