LTG Bogdan: LM, P&W trying to “squeeze every nickel” out of the U.S. government

Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the F-35 program chief, publicly ripped Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney on Wednesday during a visit to Australia.

At the Avalon airshow, he criticized both companies for failing to invest in cost reductions/

“What I see Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney doing today is behaving as if they are getting ready to sell me the very last F-35 and the very last engine and are trying to squeeze every nickel out of that last F-35 and that last engine,” Bogdan said.

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