No new costs have actually been added yet, but the Pentagon acquisition system may be procedurally required to estimate the price of the F-35 program at a level $15 billion higher than had previously been calculated.rnThat, in turn, could mark the beginning of a vicious cycle in which F-35 quantities are slashed, unit costs go up, leading to more quantity cuts, and then higher unit costs, in a kind of death spiral.
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