In remarks to a CITI investor’s conference, Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet doubled down on defending the F-35 Enterprise. With the implicit threat of investor and innovator extraordinare Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) coming for the F-35 Enterprise, Taiclet laid out the case for the F-35 to Citi’s 2025 Global Industrial Tech and Mobility Conference.