Schwartz downplays risks to F-35 while OTE says program faces "substantial risk"
U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Norton Schwartz, has downplayed delays with the F-35 program and he believes cost overruns will not breach the Nunn-McCurdy threshold.
But the annual report from the director of Operational Test and Evaluation warned that the program still faces "substantial risk" in the next two years.
"Continued production concurrent with the slow increase in flight testing over the next two years will commit the DoD and Services to test, training, and deployment plans with substantial risk. Program management needs to emphasize maintaining robust engineering and test forces, early completion of detailed test plans, fully resourcing those plans, and rigorous accreditation of models and labs," says the report by Michael Gilmore, OTE director.
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