Another reference for
FRP? Could it be 60+50+50? Or only 60 USAF and 50 combined USN/USMC? Probably the first one because the 'USN/USMC' have an almost equal number of aircraft requirement. I'll dig around for more definitions of
FRP.
Pentagon Updates F-35 Cost Estimates, Schedule AIN Defense Perspective 13 Apr 2012 Chris Pocock
"The latest Selected Acquisition Report on the Lockheed Martin F-35 program has updated the Pentagon’s cost estimates. The eight international partners may take some comfort from the predictions of future unit recurring flyaway costs, once full-rate production begins. That is, if they defer the majority of their buys until then, which seems increasingly likely....
...The average unit recurring flyaway cost (URFC) is given as $78.7 million for the F-35A, $106.5 million for the F-35B, and $87 million for the F-35C, in 2012 dollars. But this assumes an unchanged ultimate U.S. Air Force procurement of 1,763 F-35As and 680 F-35B/Cs, plus an international partner buy of 697 aircraft plus 19 for Israel. The URFC does not include the cost of initial training, spares and support. However, AIN believes that it is a more useful measure than the average procurement unit cost (APUC), which is also quoted in the report, since this amortizes a number of other costs. Also, the average URFC figures mask the substantially higher URFCs of the low-rate initial production (LRIP) aircraft. For example, the LRIP F-35As are costing between $100 and $125 million, and the 19 for Israel are quoted at $144.7 million in this report....
...Full-rate production, meaning an annual rate of 60 F-35As for the U.S. Air Force and 50 F-35B/Cs for the Marine Corps and Navy, is now due to begin in 2018...."
Pentagon Updates F-35 Cost Estimates, Schedule | Aviation International News
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F-35 factory: One aircraft per day by 2016 July 2008 Grace V. Jean
"...Modern warplanes typically have been built in small quantities over the course of many years. The Navy’s F/A-18, which has been in production for more than 20 years, is being built at a rate of 42 aircraft per year. But the F-35 Lightning II is expected to be built at an unprecedented rate — as many as 230 fighters per year.
...Once the line ramps up to full-rate production — possibly as early as 2016 — the company estimates it will assemble about 21 fighters per month, or roughly one aircraft per working day.
The moving assembly line is the only way to reach that rate of production, O’Bryan says. The F-35 measures 51 feet in length. “If the plane doesn’t move 51 feet a day … you’re not going to produce one a day.”..."
F-35 factory: One aircraft per day by 2016
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USAF Reserve Definitions of their stuff:
"Full Rate Production. Contracting for economic production quantities following stabilization of the system design and validation of the production process."
Air Force Reserve - Definitions - FRP
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This'll be a doozy def:
http://at.dod.mil/docs/DefenseAcquisitionGuidebook.pdf (30Mb)