Back home, technical problems with Lockheed Martin's P-35B aircraft that prompted Gates to put the program on a two-year probation "will soon be resolved," asserts the commandant of the Marine Corps. "None of the currently known issues are considered to be showstoppers," Gen. James Amos says. The commandant, an aviator himself, pledges to personally track the progress of the short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (Stovl) F-35B. Still, while Amos is upbeat, Pentagon testers outline several problems with the aircraft in the recently completed Director of Operational Test and Evaluation's Fiscal 2010 report.
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