| WASHINGTON: The Air Force, Navy and Marines tactical aircraft fleets are all being reconsidered as part of a Joint Staff review of fighter needs for 2023 and beyond, Air Force officials tell Breaking D — raising fundamental questions about the Pentagon's purchases of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Air Force's own fighter mix study will feed into that joint effort, the officials said. In turn, the Joint Staff review will inform the Biden administration's 2022 budget calculus, led by the director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE), outside experts say. The peril for the F-35 is clear as it is identified as one of the critical questions laid out in an internal DoD memo penned by Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks obtained by Breaking D. Read more » | 
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