Norway, the Joint Strike Fighter Program and its Implications for Transatlantic Defense Industrial Cooperation

Abstract:

This brief discusses the overdue but genuine success of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a defense procurement program for America's allies. The brief's author specifically concentrates on Norway's experiences in procuring the JSF and why Oslo still looks to Washington for defense industry cooperation. He concludes, however, that although the JSF program has succeeded in meeting its numerous technical challenges and kept its international coalition intact, it seems unlikely that a similar program of this scale and magnitude will come again in the foreseeable future, if ever.