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Can the F-35 reach $25K per flying hour target by FY 2033? It depends…

January 14, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

It’s possible for the F-35 program to reach its target of $25,000 per flying hour, but only if there’s a substantial change…   The F-35 […]

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Providing two or more sources of production doesn’t always lead to higher costs

October 23, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

The second argument usually used against setting up a second source is that the efficiencies of the first source would have to be scaled back […]

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How the CBO estimates the cost of submarines

July 15, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

To estimate the cost of those future submarines, CBO used data for the ships’ closest analogue—the Virginia class submarines that had already been built. From […]

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