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Block Buy Contracts Present Potential Savings but Some Risk

• Potential savings from a BB contract for F-35 lots 12–14 (during fiscal years 2018–2020) are approximately $2.1 billion for the air vehicle and engine combined, 4.9 percent of the cost of annual contracting for these lots.
• This estimate is in the range of savings estimated for historical fighter programs that employed multiyear contracts.
• Using alternative "hybrid" BB constructs, the estimated savings for these constructs is reduced by approximately 10 to 20 percent, compared with the full BB approach.
• This analysis focuses on potential cost savings from an F-35 BB contract and does not include a formal risk assessment, but it provides bounding estimates that will inform relevant business decisions going forward.
• Potential areas of risk may include the availability of early economic order quantity funding, configuration changes, and aircraft quantity reductions.