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The F-35’s journey through time has been unlike any other in the annals of aerospace and defense history. It was devised under the gospel of acquisition reform, it undertook the unprecedented challenge of unifying three very different US armed services in a common platform to replace ten existing and aging aircraft, it involved eight other allied nations in the development and production phases, and it was charged with delivering transformational military capability across the joint allied partnership. The F-35 has been vilified by critics from multiple corners. A barrage of headlines over the last two decades has focused on its cost and delays and has highlighted every problem and bump in the road. It is a program of nearunfathomable complexity along multiple dimensions that include the integration of transformational new technologies. The design, development, and production have proceeded against a backdrop of international stakeholders and a supply chain spanning all eight partner countries and thousands of companies, within an environment of interservice rivalries and competition for dollars. Somehow, amid a roar of criticism, some deserved but much ill-informed and driven by competing interests, the program continued on. This book captures that journey through the accumulation of over one hundred interviews with the people that made it happen. The program challenges, trials, setbacks, and successes are documented through their eyes. The idea for the book came about from discussions between Adrian Pitman, who led a series of six reviews for the Australian Government Department of Defence, and Betsy Clark, who participated in those reviews. Betsy’s first introduction to the program was as part of a mandatory US Department of Defense F-35 review team following the Nunn-McCurdy breach in early 2010. Over the initial series of reviews, Pitman and Clark had a growing and shared sense that the program, while far from perfect, was unfairly maligned in the press and that the program’s accomplishments were not well appreciated outside of the people intimately involved in the program. Their original idea was to write a case study for future program managers in the government and contractor communities. They approached Steve Over, who at that time was Lockheed’s lead for Australia. Steve enthusiastically endorsed the idea and approached Lockheed Martin to obtain support in allowing Pitman and Clark to interview specific individuals to gain the benefit of their experience and advice. Permission was also granted by the F- 35 Joint Program Office and the Australian Government Department of Defence. This book would have never gotten off the ground without Steve Over’s assistance. One of the people interviewed was Tom Burbage, who had retired, but who, as the former general manager of the F-35 program over a thirteen-year period, had unmatched knowledge about the program’s history and its many twists and turns. Burbage offered to help and joined forces with Pitman and Clark. At this point, the book transformed from a case study to a book for a more general audience encompassing the human journey of the F-35 from its very beginnings. The journey moves from the research programs in the 1980s and 1990s to the competition between the X-32 and X-35 concept demonstrators and the contract award in 2001 that changed the course of history in several ways. It recounts the multitude of challenges, some technical, many human, to the ultimate delivery of the F-35 to the warfighters of the US services and their international allies. The F-35 program is unlike any previous program. Hundreds of thousands of people have been involved around the world in its challenges and in its success. The real storytellers of this book are the more than one hundred people who participated in the interviews and the many hundreds of thousands of other people both in the government and contractor communities around the world who have been involved in the program over its more-than-twenty-five-year history and who continue to make the F-35 a reality. This is their story.