Fort Worth sees about $20 billion in significant economic impact through Lockheed Martin’s stealth fighter jet program.

The multinational F-35 program last week conducted its second weapons drop and gained two fully installed full-mission simulators. On Oct. 17, a conventional-takeoff-and-landing F-35, AF-1, performed ...

Lockheed Martin expects to be held to aggressive cost targets for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) despite the Defense Dept.’s decision to budget for development and production based on more ...

At the end of September, the US Government’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) finalized a $25 billion deal for up to 296 more fighter jets. The sum of money for lots 18 and 19 is staggering, yet the ...

James Post, Lockheed Martin’s director of F-35 customer programs, explains that as more allied nations adopt the F-35, the ...

The current Technology Refresh 3 (TR-3) is being upgraded to enable the production of Block 4 aircraft, but this is taking a ...

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

Once the TR-3 upgrade package is implemented, the F-35 will pose an even greater threat to adversaries. Though the US Air Force and Navy’s upcoming Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) and F/A-XX ...

The maker of F-35 jets is getting paid for on-time delivery, even though it’s delivering the aircraft late and without the required upgrades, a government watchdog ...

The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee found that a “pattern of short-term decision-making” had delayed investment in the F-35 fighter jet early on, increasing its later costs. The British ...

Few military aircraft have reshaped global airpower as dramatically as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. First flying in 2006, the jet has since matured into the world’s most prolific ...

The Pentagon estimates that the life-cycle cost for the F-35 has now surpassed more than $2 trillion, according to a new report.