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Crs Report for Congress: F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (]Sf) Program: Background, Status, and Issues: February 17, 2009 - Rl30563 (in English)
Congressional Research Service the Libr
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Christopher Bolkcom
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Crs Report for Congress: F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (]Sf) Program: Background, Status, and Issues: February 17, 2009 - Rl30563 (in English) - Bolkcom, Christopher ; Congressional Research Service the Libr
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Synopsis "Crs Report for Congress: F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (]Sf) Program: Background, Status, and Issues: February 17, 2009 - Rl30563 (in English)"
The Defense Departments F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is one of three aircraft modernization programs in tactical aviation, the others being the Air Force F-22A fighter and the Navy F/A-18E/F fighter/attack plane. In November 1996, the Defense Department selected two major aerospace companies, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to demonstrate competing designs for the JSF, a joint-service and multi-role fighter/attack plane. Lockheed Martin won this competition and was selected to develop and produce the JSF, a family of aircraft including conventional take-off and landing (CTOL), carrier-capable (CV), and short take-off vertical landing (STOVL) versions for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps, the United Kingdom, as well as other allied services. Originally designated the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) program, the JSF program has attracted considerable attention in Congress because of concerns about its cost, effects on the defense industrial base, and implications for U.S. national security in the 21st century. The JAST/JSF program is designed to address the high cost of tactical aviation, the need to deploy fewer types of aircraft to reduce acquisition and operating costs, and projections of future threat scenarios and enemy capabilities. The programs rationale and primary emphasis is joint-service development of a ...