Lockheed in Talks to Compensate Pentagon Over F-35 Parts
- Refund talks focus on 2015-2020 parts not ready to install
- Pentagon says Lockheed has improved parts delivery issues
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Lockheed Martin Corp. is in talks with the Pentagon over whether it will reimburse the Defense Department for parts it provided for the F-35 jet that weren’t ready to install.
The nation’s No. 1 defense contractor and Pentagon contracting officers “are now negotiating appropriate consideration for parts delivered incomplete,” the department’s F-35 program office said in a statement on Monday.