a1bill - Don't insult the capacity of this forum by posting an eight-year-old marketing chart.
Orca - Gilmore does not have an empire, his title being a bit of a misnomer. He does not command operational test units or organizations; he reports to Congress and they are unlikely to get rid of him just because someone develops a streamlined test procedure.
It's worth noting that Gilmore strongly criticized a reduction in flight test sorties and hours that the JSF program planned in 2006-07, sorties which were restored by the program's post-2010 leadership.
And I fail to see how the Wasp trial has proven anything, given the huge divergence between the test and any conceivable combat operation in terms of sortie generation rates, space available, contractor support and the availability of large in-range land bases.