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Northrop Grumman Says New F-35 Fuselage Line Yielding Efficiencies

Friday, August 17th, 2012

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PALMDALE, Calif.--Northrop Grumman [NOC] says its recently introduced automated assembly line for building the fuselages for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has increased efficiencies across the three variants of the aircraft, but expects the production rate to dip following the Pentagon's restructuring of the program earlier this year. Northrop Grumman put the new process in place in March 2011 and the first F-35 fuselage produced under the integrated assembly line (IAL) at its Palmdale Manufacturing Center rolled off a…

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