Alenia pushes to streamline costs for Italian F-35 plant

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/09/23/332625/alenia-pushes-to-streamline-costs-for-italian-f-35-plant.html

Alenia Aeronautica is seeking to streamline costs for a proposed final
assembly and check out (FACO) facility based in Italy for the Lockheed
Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The Italian plant at Cameri air base would open with only the
"essential" needs, and striking "costly" equipment and tooling that
Lockheed uses to meet production rate targets at the F-35's primary
assembly centre in Fort Worth, Texas, says Alenia CEO Giovanni
Bertoleone.