USAF back on to F-35 production plan?

Is it possible that we may see the USAF get back up to plan with F-35 production when full rate production starts in 2014? If this goes through, it would help get rid of the huge problem facing USAF of the cut a few years ago back to 48 per year when full rate starts up. Assuming the F-35 works, it will have to be funded to plan or there will be huge problems.

Production of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 Lightning II fighter jet may be more than doubled to more than 100 per year thanks to a funding increase the Pentagon approved for Air Force budgets starting in 2010, Gen. Norton Schwartz said. Schwartz, nominated to be the service’s chief of staff, disclosed during his confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Pentagon has added $5 billion annually for aircraft and weapons to its six-year plan. "Our priority is to bring F-35s into the Air Force as quickly as possible," Schwartz said in written answers to questions posed by the committee. The money "will in part be used to increase annual F-35 production rate," he wrote. Boosting F-35 production to as high as 110 per year from 48 "is the major strategy" for addressing an anticipated shortfall in fighters as the F-16 is retired, Schwartz said. — Bloomberg News