F-35 Reliability Issues Costing $1.2 Trillion

Abstract

Kirk and Fred discussing the recent article Kirk and comments posted on LinkedIn regarding the estimated maintenance costs required for the F-35 Fighter Jet.

Key Points

Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss the many issue surrounding the contracting of defense systems, and the recent report in Business Insider online.

Topics include:

• The challenges of politics, military contracting of aviation systems and comparison with commercial airlines contracting
• The continued use of reliability prediction and how it is a misleading approach
• Why contracts need to be for the total costs of the life maintenance and the burden of poor reliability be paid by the manufacturers.

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SOR 241 F-35 Reliability Issues Costing $1.2 TrillionKirk Gray

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Show Notes

Click here to go to Kirk’s LinkedIn post on the estimated future maintenance cost of the F-35 Fighter.

Here is the link (public domain) US Army and CALCE document “Reliability Prediction- Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach”. Please distribute freely.

For more information about Kirk’s Consulting services, please see his Accelerated Reliability Solutions website please click here

To see or purchase Kirk’s new book co-authored with John Paschkewitz, “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust Design of Electronics and Systems” please click on this link.

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