U.S. Defense officials to meet for F-35 restructure

A Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) effort will start next week to get a new restructure plan going for the F-35 program.

From this, we should have some new numbers on jet order predictions, cost and schedule. Timing of this is important because talks about the composition of the U.S. 2013 defense budget will start soon after.

A realistic meeting of the DAB has been delayed since the program's second Nunn McCurdy breach in 2010.