Fleet Readiness Center East is now certified to repair and test 14 F-35 components as part of a new public-private partnership with Lockheed Martin.

The Pentagon is canvassing industry to gauge whether other companies besides F-35 incumbent Lockheed Martin are capable of fulfilling a performance-based logistics (PBL) contract.

Will Roper, who leads U.S. Air Force acquisition, is requesting that the service take over an artificial intelligence (AI) project called Project Maven.