Lockheed Martin rolled out the full-scale model and cockpit demonstrator of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter for an international audience at the Korea Aerospace and Defense Exhibition trade show in Seoul. According to Lockheed official David Scott, the JSF could be available as early as 2014 through the US Foreign Military Sales program for countries not currently involved in the multinational development effort.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
