Danger Room reports Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster.
"The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the supposed backbone of the Pentagon’s future air arsenal, could need additional years of work and billions of dollars in unplanned fixes, the Air Force and the Government Accountability Office revealed on Tuesday. Congressional testimony by Air Force and Navy leaders, plus a new report by the GAO, heaped bad news on a program that was already almost a decade late, hundreds of billions of dollars over its original budget and vexed by mismanagement, safety woes and rigged test results."
"In its report the GAO reserved its most dire language for the JSF’s software, which agency expert Michael Sullivan said is ‘as complicated as anything on earth.’ The new jet needs nearly 10 million lines of on-board code, compared to 5 million for the older F-22 and just 1.5 million for the Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet. ‘Software providing essential JSF capability has grown in size and complexity, and is taking longer to complete than expected,’ the GAO warned."
For the programmers in the room: I guess UML didn't work out so well for them.
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