AvWeek editor Bill Sweetman is suspicious of the claims being made about JSF:
This comes on the heels of new questions about just how stealthy the JSF will really be. As Sweetman explains in an email, there is a confluence of events that gives the JSF team a chance to shut down the competition before any of these problems becomes an existential threat to the program:
It will be interesting to see how an Obama administration tries to game this out without looking weak on defense — a fear which seems to drive many of the decisions Obama has already made on national security. In this case, I suspect the greater danger comes from overcompensating. But given the trillions the government plans to throw at things we don’t need, maybe JSF should just be considered part of the defense stimulus.
