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The four major subassemblies for the first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter are taking shape as the program progresses toward final assembly in late spring at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth.

The American F-35 joint strike fighter (JSF) is on display at Aero India '05. Lockheed Martin feels however that the may be nowhere within India's grasp unless the country gets its 'data protection' act together and the two countries sit down and work out a comprehensive list of agreements.

IFS Applications has been selected by Lockheed Martin for local supply chain management on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program Autonomic Logistic Information System (ALIS).

Air Force chief of staff, Gen. John Jumper has confirmed that the service is planning to buy fewer F-35 joint strike fighters than originally expected.

The 57 F-16 jets that are in service with the Norwegian Air Force are old, but they have been upgraded to such an extent that the planes are still among the world's most modern jet fighter fleet.

Sophisticated antenna testing is under way on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Newport antenna research and measurement facility.

The Netherlands is delaying its planned introduction of the F-35A Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft by two years to 2014. The measure will release money needed to pay for newly emerging acquisitions, which for a major part have become necessary because of Norway's controversial decision, last September, to cancel a major equipment swap with the Netherlands.

Multi-phase Mission Systems aperture testing is under way on a full-scale model of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at the Air Force Research Laboratories' Newport, N.Y., test facility.

Pratt & Whitney awarded the production of a crucial part of the F135 engine, which will equip the F-35 JSF, to Piaggio Aero. The agreement is part of the System Development and Demonstration programme.

The Pentagon has cleared the next stage in the development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a procurement project valued at more than $240 billion, the biggest ever, the Defense Department said last week.

Lockheed Martin is confident about the progress of the Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), with first flight targeted for March 2009.

Initial integration testing of the Communication, Navigation and Identification (CNI) suite for the first flight of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has begun at Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems Integration Lab (MSIL) in Fort Worth.

Pratt & Whitney Canada has won a major contract to build a component for the engine under development by its U.S. parent company to power the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Earlier this month the Pratt & Whitney led F135 System Development and Demonstration (SDD) team completed the program's 1,000 test hour. This testing milestone represents the cumulative hours of F135 SDD Testing and includes both the Conventional Take-Off and Landing (CTOL/CV) engine tests, as well as the Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) system test runs.

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is sponsoring the development of advanced hearing protection technologies designed to prevent noise-induced hearing loss for Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force Joint Strike Fighter maintenance personnel.