F-35 - Ytelsesbasert vedlikehold foreslås av Lockheed Martin - Defence News

  

   

  

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    Lockheed Martin has a new F-35 sustainment 

    proposal for the  Pentagon that may  

    improve readiness

By: Valerie Insinna    1 day ago

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A U.S. Air Force F-35A sits loaded on the taxiway Jan. 30, 2018, at 

Kadena Air Base, Japan. For the first time in history, 10 F-35As were 

loaded while at Kadena Air Base as part of an exercise. (Senior Airman 

Quay Drawdy/U.S. Air Force)

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin is pitching the Defense Department on a performance-based logistics contract for the F-35 joint strike fighter that company officials say will help improve the availability of spare parts and accelerate repair times.

The new proposal, which would run from 2022 to 2026, is a scaled down version of the more expansive proposal Lockheed floated in 2019. As such, the Pentagon likely won’t be able to rake in the $1 billion of savings that the company projected with the original offer, said Ken Merchant, the company’s vice president for F-35 sustainment. Instead, Lockheed Martin worked to shrink the scope of the contract “to something that the customers were comfortable with,” he told reporters Tuesday.