F-35 Maintainers To Receive Logistics Info System Override Authority

By Courtney Albon / February 25, 2014 at 3:59 PM
F-35 program officials may soon give Joint Strike Fighter operators and maintainers the authority to override tasking commands provided by one of the aircraft's key IT systems until the program office can improve its performance. Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the F-35 program executive officer, said today that while the program office has begun to improve the capability of its Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS), it must "open up the envelope" for its operators and maintainers to override the system's faulty...

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