Pentagon and Lockheed Martin reach settlement on F-35 spare parts costs

摘要

The Pentagon and Lockheed Martin h'ave settled over hundreds of millions of US dollars in labour costs that the armed services incurred in managing not-ready-for-issue (non-RFI) spare parts for the US fleet of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters (JSFs). Lockheed Martin will invest USD70.6 million in the F-35 programme as compensation for its failure to deliver RFI spare parts, House Oversight and Reform Committee chairperson Carolyn Maloney of New York and House Oversight and Reform National Security Subcommittee chairman Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts said in an 8 March joint statement. The pair said that, while they believe that Lockheed Martin should have paid a greater share, this is a step in the right direction.