{"id":5728999,"date":"2026-07-16T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/pentagon-blocks-gao-f-35-report-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:16:25","slug":"pentagon-blocks-gao-f-35-report-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/pentagon-blocks-gao-f-35-report-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pentagone \u00e9touffe son propre rapport sur le F-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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This year, the Pentagon locked it in a drawer.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">The GAO confirmed on 15 July 2026 that the Defense Department had stamped its latest F-35 production-and-modernization report \u201cControlled Unclassified Information\u201d \u2014 the bureaucratic label that means not a single page reaches the public. According to the watchdog, it is the first time in more than 20 years of annual F-35 reviews that the entire report has been withheld.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">The timing is not exactly subtle. The last several public GAO reviews were bruising, and now the one document that gave outsiders a clear look at the trillion-dollar jet has gone dark.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f5f5f5; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 24px 0; border-radius: 8px;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px; color: #222;\">Quick Facts<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Report<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">\u201cF-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Update on Production and Modernization Efforts\u201d<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Status<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Fully withheld \u2014 designated Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">First time<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">In 20+ years of annual GAO reviews (mandated by Congress since 2005)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Program lifetime cost<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Projected to exceed $2 trillion<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Fleet planned<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">~2,470 aircraft over a 77-year life cycle<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 14px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Full mission-capable rate (FY2025)<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">~25%, down from 38% in FY2021 (per earlier public GAO reports)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Two Decades of Sunlight, Switched Off<\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">Congress ordered the GAO to review the F-35 every year starting in 2005, and every year since it delivered a public verdict on schedules, costs and readiness. That streak just ended. The auditors say the Pentagon determined this year\u2019s edition contains CUI \u2014 a category for sensitive-but-unclassified material \u2014 and restricted all of it.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">The GAO did not hide its discomfort with the decision, noting how unusual it is for one of its acquisition reviews to be locked away in full.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid #1565c0; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cThis is the first year that any of our acquisition reviews has been determined to contain CUI information and be restricted from public release.\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>U.S. Government Accountability Office<\/strong> \u2014 Official statement, July 2026<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">Key lawmakers will still see the findings, but not every member of Congress gets the complete, unredacted version \u2014 and voters get nothing at all. For a program the public has been paying into for a quarter of a century, that is a meaningful door slamming shut.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/pentagon-department-of-defense-f-35-report.jpg\" alt=\"The Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The Pentagon designated the 2026 F-35 report \u201cControlled Unclassified Information,\u201d blocking its public release. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">What the Public Already Knew<\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">The move stings precisely because recent public reports were unflattering. Earlier GAO reviews put the F-35\u2019s projected lifetime bill north of $2 trillion across roughly 2,470 aircraft and a 77-year life cycle, driven largely by the cost of keeping the jets flying rather than buying them.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">Readiness told a similar story. The share of F-35s able to perform every one of their assigned missions \u2014 the full mission-capable rate \u2014 had slid to about a quarter of the fleet in fiscal 2025, well below the targets the services set for themselves. Those were the kinds of numbers the annual report reliably surfaced.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid #d32f2f; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cIf the designation is used so broadly that it prevents independent review of major acquisition programs, policymakers should ask whether the system is being applied as intended.\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>Lindy Kyzer<\/strong> \u2014 Vice President for Content, ClearanceJobs<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Why It Matters<\/h2>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">Transparency advocates worry less about this single report than about the precedent. If the Pentagon can wrap its most-scrutinized program in CUI, the same label can quietly smother oversight of the next one. Several analysts have urged Congress to demand a redacted public version, a line-by-line justification for the CUI stamp, and a firm release deadline.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">The F-35 will still fly, still cost a fortune, and still generate headlines. The difference, starting this year, is that the public\u2019s clearest window into it has been painted over \u2014 and nobody outside a small circle gets to decide when it opens again.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_zG1S87ptSA\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 18px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.75;\">Business Insider\u2019s <em>True Cost<\/em> breakdown lays out how the F-35 became the priciest weapons program ever conceived \u2014 the context that makes this year\u2019s blackout so contentious.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-style: italic; color: #777; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 24px;\">Sources: U.S. Government Accountability Office; Bloomberg; Forbes; The Hill; South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f0f4ff; border-left: 4px solid #5C91FF; padding: 16px 20px; margin: 32px 0 8px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 8px; font-weight: 600; color: #333;\">Related Posts<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/f-35-block-4-upgrade-delays-2026\/\">The F-35\u2019s Killer Upgrade Keeps Slipping<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 4px 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/canada-f-35-joint-strike-missile-kongsberg-2026\/\">Ottawa Arms Its F-35s With a Norwegian Missile<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share this story For two decades, the taxpayers who foot the bill for the most expensive weapon in human history got one honest annual accounting of it: the Government Accountability Office\u2019s yearly review of the F-35. 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