That's already tipped to add more than a year to the project. It's a problem for the US Marine Corps which plans to stand up its first operational squadron in July 2015 and for the US Air Force which follows in August 2016 and the US Navy in August 2018. On that basis, we don't have that much cause for concern. The RAAF is aiming for initial operating capability in 2020, by which time JSF, hopefully, will have achieved an acceptable level of capability. Maybe we do have cause for concern though. Software development has a rich history of confounding predictions and far exceeding deadlines.
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