==> 미국 국방부 차관인 Bill Lynn 이 오스트레일리아  여행중 호주 신문과 인터뷰에서 F-35 의 일정이 1 년 연기되었다는 사실을 시인했습니다.  지금까지 여러가지 일정지연의 이유로 30 개월 - 18 개월 연기될 것으로 추측들을 해왔지만 록히드마틴사는 공식적으로 부인해왔지요.  30 개월 지연의 위기가 있었지만 시험기체를 추가하여 18 개월 정도를 따라 잡아 12 개월 지연이 불가피하고 가격에 대해서는 언급해줄수 없다고 했더군요.....

 몇시간 전 뉴스라 소개하는 곳이 적어서 두 곳의 기사를 소개합니다 

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http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2010/02/bill-lynn-f-35-is-1-year-behin.html

Bill Lynn: F-35 is 1 year behind schedule

By Stephen Trimble on February 16, 2010 2:17 PM

Lockheed Martin still disagrees that the F-35 program will face any new delays, but the jet's biggest customer now adamantly disagrees.

If you believe Lockheed, adding a 14th aircraft -- an F-35C carrier-based variant -- to the flight test program, as proposed in the Fiscal 2011 budget request, allows the program to deliver the first operational squadron of F-35Bs to the US Marine Corps on time before October 1, 2012.

But that's not what Deputy Secretary of Defense Bill Lynn thinks, according to the Australian press. Lynn in is traveling in Australia this week, and meetings with reporters have yielded this remarkable story in The Australian newspaper.

According to the article, Lynn says the program was headed for a 30-month delay before the latest intervention, which resulted in the firing of the government program manager, four fewer production jets and more than $600 million in withheld incentive fee payments to Lockheed. As the flight test program continues to slip behind schedule, the government is proposing to Congress to add an extra developmental aircraft. 

The changes bought back 18 months of lost schedule, so now there is only a 12-month delay projected, Lynn tells the Australian press.

Of course, saying the F-35 program faces a 12-month delay is vague enough to be nearly meaningless. Does that mean an across-the-board delay for all three variants, or only one or two of the three? Does it mean a delay for the initial operational capability (IOC) milestones or the completion of the development phase?

Lynn concludes, of course, by saying the program is now on the right track, with a funding and schedule profile that matches reality. I recall hearing the same argument in 2004 when Lockheed revealed a weight problem for the F-35B that cost a two-year delay and doubled the price of the development phase to more than $40 billion.

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Pentagon officials on Feb. 16 confirmed Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn’s announcement one day prior that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program will be delayed by about one year.

The Pentagon’s No. 2 official said this week that the jet’s development schedule would slip between 12 months and 13 months despite an aggressive restructuring of the program that was announced earlier this month.

“The development was originally projected to last an additional 30 months; we think with the additional test aircraft it will be closer to a delay of about 12 or 13 months, but I can’t give you the cost numbers,” The Australian newspaper quoted Lynn as saying during a speech at a shipyard in South Australia. He did not say if this would affect the delivery timeline for the JSF.

The delay is due to the integration of additional test aircraft that were mandated under the restructuring, which also extended system development and design (SDD) until 2015, according to a Pentagon official.

“That is a true statement, the driver on this is the test aircraft,” the official said Feb. 16. “The driver on this whole thing, about a year, is due to the additional test aircraft.”

Like Lynn, the official would not comment on how this will affect the delivery schedule for the plane. The U.S. Marine Corps is set to get its first F-35s in 2012, with the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy scheduled to receive their jets in 2013 and 2014, respectively.

On Feb. 1, Steve O’Bryan, Lockheed’s vice president for F-35 business development, told reporters that while the jet’s flight tests are roughly six months behind schedule, the company will deliver the plane in time to meet the Marines’ initial operating capability date of 2012.

“I think you’ll see that we’re going to deliver all the SDD jets by the end of this year and get them in flight test,” O’Bryan said.

Under the Pentagon’s restructuring that was announced Feb. 1, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered an additional test jet and $2.8 billion be put into the extended F-35 SDD, withheld more than $600 million in performance fees from Lockheed, cut planes from F-35 acquisition coffers and fired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. David Heinz, the Pentagon’s F-35 program manager.

The Defense Department is requesting $10.7 billion in its 2011 budget to continue development on the F-35 and purchase 43 of the planes.