Defence strongly disagrees with media reporting today that the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program is `flawed\' and should be abandoned. This reporting, following on from a newspaper article today, misrepresents the true status of the JSF program.

The original media report draws on excerpts from two risk assessments in 2005 by Australia\'s Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), which identified possible risks with aspects of the JSF program at that time.

Contrary to media reporting that the DSTO assessments showed the JSF program to be flawed, these assessments are a good example of best practice project management to identify risk and to take early steps to reduce or eliminate it.