Carter Pressures Lockheed For Lower JSF Price

By Amy Butler

NEW YORK — Pentagon procurement chief Ashton Carter says he expects not to have to pay the Pentagon’s estimated $92-million average per-unit Joint Strike Fighter price, and he is “unhappy” with performance on the $380-billion program to date.

Carter says the Pentagon can “manage out some cost” from this estimate, which was devised by the Cost Analysis and ...

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