ACC Commander Not Optimistic About Reducing F-35 Cost Per Flying Hour to $25,000

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Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly, the head of Air Combat Command (ACC), said on Feb. 26 that he isnot confident that the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 will reach the $25,000 cost-per-flying hourgoal by 2025."In terms of confidence level of getting to $25,000 by 2025, I'm not brimming with confidence,"he told reporters during the Air Force Association 2021 virutal Aerospace Warfare Symposium.In the past two years, Pentagon officials, including those from the Cost Assessment andProgram Evaluation (CAPE) office, have voiced similar skepticism about reaching the $25,000goal. Last summer, the F-35 Joint Program Office said that the cost-per-flying hour was$35,000, down from $44,000 in 2019.