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Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Courtney E. Howard	BAE Systems Gains F-35 JSF Production Contract to Deliver EWCS The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program partner Lockheed Martin have awarded BAE Systems a contract to begin low-rate production of the JSF.
Defense Update July 2008	5th Generation Fighter Dominated by the US - at Farnborough 2008 After years of progress, the F-35 Lightning II supersonic, multi-role, 5th generation stealth fighter program is accelerating the pace against other competitors
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National Defense January 2015 Valerie Insinna	Important Tests Loom for Navy and Marine Corps F-35 The Navy and Marine Corps variants of the joint strike fighter have an eventful year ahead, and program officials are saddled with a long list of work to do before major milestones in the summer.
Fast Company April 2002 Bill Breen	High Stakes, Big Bets Tom Burbage and his 500-person team at Lockheed Martin went after the biggest military deal in U.S. history -- and scored a $200 billion victory: a contract to build the Joint Strike Fighter. They didn't play it safe; they played to win...
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National Defense December 2007 Breanne Wagner	Digital Designs and Virtual Tests Continue To Be Subject of Debate To speed up deliveries and cut costs, the U.S. military's newest jet fighter will undergo much of its testing in digital simulations.
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National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Tactical Aviation's Existential Debate: To Hover or Not to Hover? When it comes to saving prized weapon systems from the budget ax, the Marine Corps has excelled like no other branch of the military.
National Defense September 2014 Valerie Insinna	As F-35 Ramps Up, Legacy Fighters Face Existential Threat After 2018, the F-35 is likely to capture over a 50 percent share of the global fighter jet market, says Richard Aboulafia, aerospace analyst for the Teal Group, in a February report.
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National Defense December 2015 Stew Magnuson	F-35 Program Ramps Up Training for Pilots, Technicians The F-35 joint strike fighter program is transitioning to a day when its pilots will come fresh out of flight school and the new jet fighter will be their first assignment.
The Motley Fool December 19, 2007 Rich Smith	Lockheed's Plane for All Seasons Lockheed unveils the second version of its Lockheed F-35 Lightning II for the U.S. Marine Corps, but the first deliveries to the military are still at least three years away.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John McHale	F-35 Joint Strike Fighter leverages COTS for avionics systems Designers of the avionics systems for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter aircraft are using commercial off-the-shelf avionics wherever and whenever possible throughout the advanced fighter's cockpit
National Defense January 2015 Edward Lundquist	F-35 Industrial Base Relies On International Participation The international component is a huge element of what we do. It's building this coalition capacity that the U.S. is going to need in a future day and age, but it's also bringing the price of the U.S. airplanes down.
National Defense September 2014 Dan Parsons	Fifth-Generation Fighters Will Determine Air Dominance in Future Conflicts The Raptor is the only combat-ready fifth-generation fighter in the world. Its thrust-vectoring engines, sensor fusion technology and stealth are what define it as a generational leap from previous fighter designs.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2009 Rich Smith	USAF Rolls Over. Will Lockheed Play Dead? Defense Secretary Gates wielded the budget axe against Lockheed's Raptor fighter jets, but the F-22's final dogfight will play out in Congress.
The Motley Fool November 14, 2011 Katie Spence	An $11 Billion Contract Would Be Just the Boost This Company Needs Lockheed's F-35 fighter has been plagued with problems, but possible sales to India may be the breath of fresh air the company is looking for.
National Defense June 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Northrop Grumman Aims To Retain Grip on Aviation Northrop Grumman Corp. makes a big play to join the ranks of Lockheed Martin and Boeing as one of the nation's top manufacturers of combat aircraft.
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National Defense July 2008 Grace V. Jean	Eglin Prepares to Open F-35 Training Center Lockheed Martin Corp. is building a high-tech training center at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., which will be used by all F-35 pilots and maintainers.
National Defense September 2013 Dan Parsons	Prime Contractors Chasing Big Business Retooling Old Fighters For the United States and its allies, the F-16 has proven time and again to be the perfect all-around, multi-mission fighter aircraft, and with ongoing delays in developing a revolutionary new plane, air forces are preparing to keep it flying for decades to come.
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National Defense January 2015 Valerie Insinna	In Future Rotorcraft Acquisition, Services Working to Avoid Mistakes of Past Joint Programs The history of joint aircraft is littered with failures, and when programs do come to fruition, they oftentimes are marred by schedule delays and cost overruns. Case in point, critics say, is the uber-expensive F-35 joint strike fighter program.
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National Defense December 2015 Jon Harper	F-35 Program Weighs Impact of Canadian Pullout Canada's anticipated withdrawal from the multinational joint strike fighter program could drive up the cost of the aircraft for U.S. taxpayers, said the officer managing the project.
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