The Defense Department is making plans to award Lockheed Martin a new contract to re-architect the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's troubled Autononomic Logistics Information System. The department announced its plan to sole-source the work to Lockheed in a Jan. 18 Federal Business Opportunity notice. F-35 joint program office spokesman Joe DellaVedova told Inside Defense the effort, dubbed ALIS Next, is intended to “provide significant improvements in affordability, supportability, resiliency, and cybersecurity." Lockheed will team with MIT Lincoln Labs, MITRE...
