The aircraft, delivered since June 29, were the first jets manufactured as part of Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Lot 3.
Yet not mentioned is that these deliveries are well behind as one of the LRIP-3 DOD contracts announced in 2009 indicates.
Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $2,106,525,040 modification to definitize the previously awarded Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) air system low rate initial production Lot III advance acquisition contract (N00019-08-C-0028) to a cost-plus-incentive-fee/award-fee contract. This modification provides for the procurement of 7 Air Force conventional take off and landing (CTOL), 7 Marine Corps short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL); 1 CTOL for the Netherlands, and 2 STOVLs for the United Kingdom. In addition, this modification provides for the associated ancillary mission equipment and technical/financial data. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas, (35 percent); El Segundo, Calif., (25 percent); Warton, United Kingdom, (20 percent); Orlando, Fla., (10 percent); Nashua, N.H., (5 percent); and Baltimore, Md., (5 percent), and is expected to be completed in Dec. 2011.
March 2013 is when work for LRIP-4 is to be complete...
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BTW, what's the actual final Total Procurement Unit Cost of LRIP F-35A jets?
If one remembers, this LRIP-4 was a pivotal make-or-break FY year for deciding what actually the heck to do this this thing called the JSF/F-35 Program! Kill it? Or continue it??
As I recall... the massive push at the time (FY10) -- the same FY year when the decision was made to kill the F-22 -- was to continue the F-35 Program based on a robust interventionist call to demand affordable 'fixed-costing' to the Procurement! Even if 'Fixed costs' were pre-mature.
Basically, the mentality of the day it seemed was... 'Fix' the freaking costs already to make this FY buy seem affordable... or this Program is going to get killed!
Correction above ---
First sentence should read:
"what's the actual final Total Procurement Unit Cost of LRIP-4 jets"
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