* ASTOVL, precursor of the Joint Strike Fighter Program

On July 11, 2002, Turkey became a Level 3 partner of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ) development program.

* The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is being increasingly viewed as a " white elephant " by the US military, due to its astounding price tag of some $ 380 billion for nearly 2, 500 aircraft in three differing versions, to equip nine nations ' air forces.

These simulators have been used for a variety of purposes including continued training for Space Shuttle pilots, development of future spacecraft handling qualities, helicopter control system testing, Joint Strike Fighter evaluations, and accident investigations.

In 1997 BAe joined the Lockheed Martin X-35 Joint Strike Fighter team.

Pratt & Whitney military engines include the F135 for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ), the F119 for the F-22 Raptor, the F100 family that powers the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Falcon, the F117 for the C-17 Globemaster III, the J52 for the EA-6B Prowler, the TF33 powering E-3 AWACS, E-8 Joint STARS, B-52, and KC-135 aircraft, and the TF30 for the F-111.

In many ways, the Joint Strike Fighter is seen as a rebirth of the TFX project, in that it purports to satisfy the needs of three American Air arms ( as well as several foreign customers ), fulfilling the roles of strike fighter, carrier-launched fighter, V / STOL, and close air support ( and drawing many criticisms similar to those leveled against the TFX ).

The cover story of the May / June 1998 issue entitled Plain Crazy: The Joint Strike Fighter Story discussed the development of a new set of military fighter jets that could " blow a hole in the attempt to create a leaner Post-Cold War military.

As of 1 October 2009, the 33d FW transitioned to a training wing for the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ) under Air Education and Training Command.

As the first of its kind in the Department of Defense, the joint wing is responsible for F-35 A / B / C ( Joint Strike Fighter ) pilot and maintainer training for the Marine Corps, the Navy and the Air Force.

In this capacity, VFA-101 will serve as the Fleet Replacement Squadron for the U. S. Navy's F-35C Lightning II, the aircraft carrier-capable variant of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ).

This curtailment in military procurements combined with the loss of the contracts for two major projects, the Advanced Tactical Fighter and Joint Strike Fighter, severely hurt McDonnell Douglas.

In 1995, the U. S. military's Joint Advanced Strike Technology program changed name to Joint Strike Fighter program.

Officially, the U. S. Air Force planned to replace the A-10, with its new " Joint Strike Fighter ", the F-35 Lightning II.

In 2003 Piaggio Aero Industries was selected by Pratt & Whitney to supply the Low Pressure Turbine case and the bearing compartment housings for the F. 135 engine, powering the F. 35 Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ).

In 1994, partly due to the loss of the Advanced Tactical Fighter contract to Lockheed Martin and the removal of their proposal from consideration for the Joint Strike Fighter competition, the company bought Grumman to form Northrop Grumman.

QFD House of Quality for Enterprise Product Development Processes QFD is applied in a wide variety of services, consumer products, military needs ( such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ), and emerging technology products.

MCAS Yuma is currently programmed to become the Marine Corps ' initial operating base for the F-35B variant of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ).

The latest platforms include the Boeing 787, Airbus A380, Comac C919, Learjet LJ85, Gulfstream G650 and G450, Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Embraer KC-390, and Sikorsky CH-53K.

MBDA is exploring integration of Meteor on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter ( JSF ).

The testimony of Strike the Ree and Medicine Cow to a Special Joint Committee on the Condition of the Indian Tribes in 1865 suggests that Burleigh was self-serving and corrupt in his dealings with the Indians.

In terms of percentage, 53 % of all Army personnel are in the Land Forces, 25 % are in the Air Force, 13 % are in the Navy and 9 % are in the Joint Forces Command.

In the mid-1990s they were awarded some DARPA funding to develop a modern user interface to Augment, called Visual AugTerm ( VAT ), while participating in a larger program addressing the IT requirements of the Joint Task Force.

" In September, Joint Force Quarterly published an article by an Air Force colonel that disputed the argument that unit cohesion is compromised by the presence of openly gay personnel.

The Ecuadorian territory is divided into five " Joint Task Force Zones " or Fuerzas de Tarea Conjunta, four on mainland Ecuador, the fifth being the Naval-zone ( including the Galapagos Islands ).

It advises on national defence and is conformed by the Chief of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces and the Commanders of all three branches of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces: The Army, Navy and the Air Force.

The UK maintains a Joint Rapid Reaction Force containing elements of all three services which could be deployed to the islands in the event of receiving intelligence of a specific threat to the islands.

* Joint Task Force Guantanamo

* 1947 – Cold War: U. S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

During this tour of duty, he was reassigned as chief of staff, Joint Task Force Provide Promise, for operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Macedonia.

There is a Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta region designated " Restore Hope.

Used by operators at the 614th Air and Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the 614 AOC's 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week support provides vigilance of global and theater operations and equips the Joint Functional Component Command for space operations with the tools to conduct command and control of space forces.

Notable graduates include former U. S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, U. S. Senator John McCain, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Wesley Clark, former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace and Hugh Shelton, former National Security Advisor and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe James L. Jones, former U. S Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki, former U. S. Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt, retired Air Force General Arnold W. Braswell, U. S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle, World War II submarine officer and best-selling novelist Edward L. Beach, Jr., former military aide to President John F. Kennedy Godfrey McHugh, murdered U. S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens, and U. S. Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz.

The operation was carried out by elements of the United States 10th Mountain Division, 101st Airborne Division, the U. S. special forces groups TF 11, TF Bowie, and TF Dagger, British Royal Marines, the Norwegian Forsvarets Spesialkommando ( FSK ), Hærens Jegerkommando and Marinejegerkommandoen, Canada's 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Canada's Joint Task Force 2, the Afghan National Army, the German KSK, and elements of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment and of the New Zealand Special Air Service.

Operations began in mid-2002 at Camp Lemonier by a Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force ( CJSOTF ) augmented by support forces from Fort Stewart, Fort Hood, and Fort Story.

In October 2002, the Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa ( CJTF-HOA ) was established at Djibouti at Camp Lemonier, taking over responsibilities from the CJSOTF.

Richard Bowman Myers ( born March 1, 1942 ) is a retired four-star general in the United States Air Force and served as the 16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

His Air Force career included operational command and leadership positions in a variety of Air Force and Joint assignments.

From July 1996 to July 1997 he served as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon ; and from November 1993 to June 1996 General Myers was Commander of U. S. Forces Japan and 5th Air Force at Yokota Air Base, Japan.

His Air Force career included operational command and leadership positions in a variety of Air Force and Joint assignments.

The ruling blocs continually denied Stalin ’ s opponents the right to organise as an opposition faction within the Party — thus, the re-instatement of democratic centralism and free speech within the Communist Party were key arguments of Trotsky ’ s Left Opposition, and the later Joint Opposition.

The conflict between some parts of the BNP and the Hafizuddin, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan-led faction took place after a large procession during the party's Joint General Secretary Tarique Rahman's release on September 3, 2008.

The coup itself led to more rivalries within the military than it had calmed, and following a power struggle between Poggi and the hard-line Commander of the Cavalry Corps, General Enrique Rauch, the relatively moderate (" blue " faction ) prevailed with the appointment of General Juan Carlos Onganía as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs ; Onganía only narrowly avoided a takeover by the far-right, " red " faction of the military in the difficult subsequent months.