"These are inconsistent with years of detailed analysis that has been undertaken by Defence, the JSF program office, Lockheed Martin, the US services and the eight other partner nations."
The cost and schedule of the development program are also "inconsistent" with the promises made and accepted by these august, well-informed and doubtless honest institutions; whereas the outsider critics turned out to be correct in saying (from 2007-08 onwards) that the costs were fantasy and that the schedule was infeasible.
Moreover, the JSFPO, the Joe Isuzus in industry and the officials defending the program used the same fallacy (argument from authority) to assert that the people (from APA to Navair and the Pentagon's Joint Estimating Team) who were criticizing the schedule were wrong, because only the anointed understood that the program could not be assessed against "legacy" metrics.
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There are three levels of risk with the JSF program: programmatic (which is now a fact, rather than risk, and the only question is how bad the final delays and overruns will be); operational; and strategic. The critics have won on the first and the verdict is still out on the second and third.