@MichaelJaszczy7 One of our (NAFO’s) most important roles, imho, is to ensure that the responses to our local news sites and government sites are not monopolized by the voices of extremism; to encourage our fair and free press and to applaud government when it is deserved.
The story that’s between the lines is that the military needs to reverse engineer F-35 parts because the data rights to the F-35 design weren’t spelled out in detail in the original contract. So Lockheed Martin believes that all F-35 design data ultimately belongs to Lockheed Martin.
There was a legal fight over the code of the F-35 for years. The government wants access to the code to get the Joint Simulation Environment working; LM didn’t like this idea. Ultimately the lawsuit was settled, terms undisclosed.
I don’t blame the JPO for celebrating this. Just know there’s a definite “fuck you, Lockheed” context.