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Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin celebrated on Tuesday the start of assembly of the first center fuselage for the F-35 joint strike fighter.

Lockheed Martin plans to use commercial software from Siebel Systems Inc. to support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. Siebel's Service and Analytics solutions will be integrated into the F-35's Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS).

Britain is concerned about excessive weight on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter foiling its costly plans to deploy the U.S. jet on its aircraft carriers.

There are conflicting reports that the export version of the F-35 JSF would have less low-observable (stealth) qualities than the ones to be delivered to the U.S.

Norway considers to pull out of the JSF project. At issue is Norway's part of the work share, which is one of the most common misunderstandings about the JSF project.

Yet another anouncement that the total cost of the Joint Strike Fighter Program will increase. This time it will surge $45 billion, or 22.6 percent, due to rising labor costs and program delays, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The JSF program has many unique technology ideas associated with it. One idea is looking at new fuels to power jet engines. Researchers are designing the fuel for the new generation of high performance engines in aircraft such as the F35 Joint Strike Fighter and the U.S. Air Forces' VAATE program ? versatile, affordable, advanced turbine engines.

Early reports show that the Air Force's next generation close-air support aircraft has a weight problem. Secretary of the Air Force Dr. James G. Roche told members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on defense the issue was predictable.

A senior Air Force official told lawmakers March 25 that the service would not be interested in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter if a technical glitch could not be overcome or if program funds were cut off.

Singapore, which plans to upgrade its air force, signed an agreement to become the first Asian participant in Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, with an option to buy the planes starting in 2012.

Melbourne-based Adacel Technologies will supply speech recognition software systems for the $US200bn global Joint Strike Fighter program.

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter team successfully launched the first phase of the F-35 Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System (EO DAS) early risk-reduction flight-test program, with recently conducted flights near Patuxent River Naval Air Warfare Center in Maryland.

HBM, Inc., a leading global supplier of measurement technologies, products and solutions for industrial test and measurement applications, has been awarded an $8.7 million dollar contract to provide data acquisition hardware and software for structural tests on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.

Paul Bevilaqua, chief engineer of Advanced Development Projects at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., has received Design News magazine's Engineer of the Year award, the publication's highest honor.

Israel signed a letter of agreement, worth almost $20 million, to formally join the system development and demonstration (SDD) effort for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program as a "security cooperation participant" (SCP).