2006 was the year when Lockhead Martin F-35 Lightning II first flew.
August 14  Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one female students are killed by Sri Lankan Air Force in an air strike
In October 2000, US Congress approved an incentive for the use of performance-based contracts, through legislation giving the Department of Defense time-limited authority to treat certain performance-based service contracts as contracts for commercial items, which may be awarded using streamlined procedures under Part 12 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

