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Accession Number:
AD1157468
Title:
Warfighter Support: DOD Needs to Share F-35 Operational Lessons Across the Military Services
Report Date:
2018-04-25
Abstract:
In January 2017, the Marine Corps began transferring F-35 aircraft to Iwakuni, Japan--representing the first overseas stationing of the F-35 since its development. Reports accompanying the 2017 National Defense Authorization bills included provisions for GAO to review DOD's initial stationing of the F-35 in Japan. In March 2018, GAO issued a classified report (GAO-18-79C) that addressed these provisions. That report (1) described the warfighting capabilities the F-35 brings to the Pacific and assessed any operational challenges the Marine Corps faces; (2) assessed the extent to which the Marine Corps is prepared to support distributed operations with the F-35 in the Pacific; and (3) determined the extent to which the Marine Corps records and DOD shares F-35 operational lessons learned across the Marine Corps, the Air Force, and the Navy. DOD deemed some of the information related to the first two objectives to be classified, which must be protected from loss, compromise, or inadvertent disclosure. DOD deemed the recommendations we made in the report to be unclassified. This report is a public version of the March 2018 classified report and focuses exclusively on the third objective, which DOD deemed unclassified: the extent to which the Marine Corps records and DOD shares F-35 operational lessons learned across the three services. To determine the extent to which the Marine Corps records and DOD shares F-35 operational lessons learned across the Marine Corps, the Air Force, and the Navy, GAO reviewed available Marine Corps after action reports on F-35-related exercises and compared the intraservice distribution of these after action reports with the guidelines in DOD's Joint Lessons Learned Program. GAO also interviewed officials from the F-35 Joint Program Office, as well as officials from the Marine Corps Forces Pacific; the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan; the Air Force Integration Office; and the Navy F-35 Fleet Integration Office.
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Conference:
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Pages:
15
File Size:
1.37MB
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Distribution Statement:
Approved For Public Release
