A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has found that Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney, the primary contractors working on the F-35, made product deliveries 238 days late on average in 2024 — despite the program paying them hundreds of millions in performance incentive fees, which encourage completing tasks on-time. By comparison, the same deliveries were 61 days late on average in 2023. But even then, the contractors’ lateness was chronic, if not absolute. Lockheed Martin...| Responsible Statecraft
As tensions with China escalate on earth amid tariff woes and naval clashes, lawmakers in Capitol Hill are pushing for them to escalate further — in space, perhaps even militarily. Indeed, lawmakers and witnesses alike fearmongered about China’s space activities at a U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing Wednesday entitled “There’s a Bad Moon on the Rise: Why Congress and NASA Must Thwart China in the Space Race.” Certainly, China has made moves to e...| Responsible Statecraft