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USAF works to bridge gap between its sustainment cost estimates and Lockheed’s 12 Jan 2013 by Dave Majumdar

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ds-380967/

"The US Air Force and the Pentagon's Joint Program Office are working to bridge the gap between their estimates of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's cost per flight hour and those of the manufacturer....

...Welsh, though he did not have numbers on hand, says that the USAF is makes good progress. "We're getting to a point where we have a pretty good understanding of the cost per flying hour as we will define it in the air force," he says. "The numbers are going to be a little bit different for the Marines and the navy, and we're trying to kind of resolve all that, too, so we're comparing apples to apples."...

...US Air Force Secretary Michael Donley adds the simulation technology might be able to reduce the number of flight hours needed by F-35 pilots, which could further decrease costs. "The F-35 simulator is the most sophisticated simulator that we have in the fighter world now," he says. "So it provides a great opportunity to look more carefully at how we divide actual flying hours from sim time...."

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USAF to bridge gap between sustainment cost est. & LM's