DOT&E: F-35 JPO will defer some ALIS capability to Block 4 follow-on modernization

By Courtney Albon / January 10, 2017 at 5:00 PM
Development delays on the newest version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's diagnostics and health management system will likely push delivery of the final system to mid-2018 and will defer some requirements to future modernization, according to the Pentagon's top weapons tester. In his annual report to Congress -- his last as Director of Operational Test and Evaluation -- J. Michael Gilmore writes that delivery of the final development version of the F-35 Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), ALIS 3.0,...

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