Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen...
There is a metric
ton of money in the new budget, in FY2017 and out-years, flowing into F-16 and F-15. Meanwhile, the USAF is having to hire contract maintenance crews for active units, so they can throw more people at the task of keeping the unreliable, maintenance-hungry JSFs sorta-flying, even though not a one will be combat-capable before 2019...
By the way...
"But it’s just a lot of money too, and it’s unclear that we will be able to get this program back to the ramps that we had hoped for previously."
Not getting on the ramps = wave goodbye to all the price promises.
And I seem to remember one of our number whingeing on and on and on about a report in November that ACC would cut JSF to pay for F-15/F-16 force improvements. Did he ever write that letter and sign his mom's real name to it, I wonder?