New Blows Hit JSF Program

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DoD auditors find 190 quality assurance issues in the Joint Strike Fighter program, Time reports. Motley Fool says that the Air Force’s desire for a new sixth generation fighter within the next two decades signals a problem for Lockheed Martin.

The Navy delays the request for proposals for the UCLASS program, FlightGlobal reports.

NAVAIR commander Vice Adm. Dunaway issues a guide (PDF) for performance-based logistics acquisition best practices.

Defense Daily says a Congressional compromise on the Defense Authorization Bill (paywall) is near. Defense News concurs that “a lot” of progress has been made. The Senate passes a $631 billion defense bill, DoD Buzz reports. Conference votes have been postponed, The Hill reports.

NAVAIR contracts: Boeing gets $175 million more for the “procurement of engineering, integration, and test efforts for the stores management, acoustics, and communication subsystem modifications for integration into the baseline P-8A aircraft weapon system”; ERAPSCO gets $17.8 million more for the procurement of 2,999 AN/SSQ-125 sonobuoys.

GhostShell hacking group claims it has compromised 1.6 million DoD and contractor accounts, according to The Verge.