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Lockheed Rolls Out Italy’s 1st F-35A Jet; Lorraine Martin Comments

Lockheed Rolls Out Italy's 1st F-35A Jet; Lorraine Martin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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F-35BLockheed Martin has unveiled the first F-35A fighter jet for the Italian air force at a final assembly and check out facility in Cameri, Italy.

It is the first of eight F-35As being integrated at the site and is slated to take a maiden flight later this year, Lockheed said Thursday.

Lockheed and Finmeccanica‘s Alenia Aermacchi unit jointly run the Cameri F-35 FACO center for the Italian defense ministry.

Lorraine Martin, an executive vice president and F-35 program manager at Lockheed, said the hub is also built to facilitate maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade work on F-35s for European defense customers.

Alenia Aermacchi has completed the first full F-35A wing component and will ship the structure to a Lockheed facility in Fort Worth, Texas, for final assembly.

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Written by Mary-Louise Hoffman

is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.

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