GAO to HASC, F-35 needs ‘unprecedented’ amounts of funding

The U.S. Government Accountability Office reported at a House Armed Services Committee subcommittee yesterday that the F-35 program will require “unprecedented demands for funding” to survive.

Michael Sullivan, the GAO director of acquisition management, also told the panel that the final block is not expected to be ready until 2015 and “substantial amount of work remains” for the aircraft’s software development.