U.S. DOD test chief to U.S. DOD boss -- substantial amounts of testing will have to be forgone, and significant deficiencies accepted

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“The program is now schedule-driven” instead of being guided by test results and “is on a path that could result in” the aircraft’s combat systems “meant to provide full combat capability providing significantly less capability than has been expected or advertised,” Gilmore wrote in a Jan. 27 memo to Carter.

“To meet schedule, substantial amounts of previously planned developmental testing will have to be forgone, and significant deficiencies accepted,” Gilmore told Carter.