An audit found that the defense department paid the aerospace company $1.7 billion by July in spite of poor performance.

Lockheed secured a $3.63B Navy contract modification to provide F‑35 logistics, maintenance, training and supply chain ...

The F-35 program closes 2025 under the shadow of a new report from the Pentagon‘s Inspector General: millions in payments ...

The US fleet of F-35s, the most sophisticated stealth fighter jet in the world, was only available to fly half of the time ...

The United States Air Force is quietly transforming its F-35A fleet from a stealthy scout into a far more lethal strike ...

The F‑35 program is the DoD’s largest acquisition program with an estimated cost of over $2 trillion to buy, operate and ...

The U.S. Navy is acquiring and undisclosed number of BriteCloud Active Expendable Decoys specifically for the F-35 Lightning II. The Naval Air Systems ...

Every F-35 delivered to the U.S. military last year by Lockheed Martin was behind schedule by an average of seven months, a government watchdog found, but contractors kept millions in “incentive fees” ...

Lockheed Martin will build up to 296 F-35s as part of Lots 18 and 19, with first deliveries in 2026. Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) announced they reached a final agreement ...

The crash of an F-35 stealth fighter jet in California joins a list of accidents in recent years that have highlighted controversy surrounding the aircraft. The U.S. Navy said July 30 that the jet ...

The F-35’s multirole design prevents it from excelling at close air support—yet the fighter jet is well-suited to missions in contested airspace, which competitors like the A-10 Warthog are not.

With small control surfaces and no thrust vectoring, the F-35 cannot change direction rapidly in close-range engagements. While hyper maneuverability has become a cornerstone of modern fighter jet ...