Pentagon’s chief weapons tester said his colleagues lied about the F-35 program

Dr. J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, said in a memo to Frank Kendall, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, that a draft response to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain had contained misleading information.

By Staff Sgt. Madelyn Brown [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“If not changed, the existing responses would at best be considered misleading and at worst, prevarications,” Gilmore wrote in the memo which was obtained by Bloomberg.

He added that timelines such as the end of development testing and full weapons tests in the draft response are optimistic and achievable.

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