Congress has been busy preparing the fiscal year (FY) 2026 suite of defense bills, and thus far there is substantial disagreement between the Pentagon and legislators. The Senate Committee on Armed Services (SCAS) on July 9, 2025, approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which contained $878.7 billion for the Department of […]
There should be no third bite at the taxpayers’ money for the twice-killed alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). In 2011, following years of opposition from multiple presidential administrations and the Department of Defense (DOD), along with a coalition of taxpayer organizations, the first attempt to provide an alternate engine for the […]
The F-35’s software development is plagued by underperformance and delays, raising serious concerns about the JSF’s reliability.
