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Over $85M in F-35 Parts Are Unaccounted For, GAO Says — and that Number Could Be Much Larger

Because “the F35 JPO does not have an independent record of the global spares pool, and the values of the lost spare parts are not the fully burdened cost, the $85 million of identified losses by [the subcontractor] may not accurately represent the full quantity and value of lost spare parts,” the GAO found.

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