Joint F-35 office completes critical technology review amid crucial delays

By Vanessa Montalbano / February 8, 2024 at 5:30 AM
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program office in mid-January completed a technical baseline review for its long-overdue hardware and software upgrade, an F-35 Joint Program Office spokesman told Inside Defense . The review assessed the progress and efficiency of the platform’s new computational core, known as Technology Refresh 3, which is meant to bring greater processing power, better computer memory and a panoramic display to F-35s. Russ Goemaere, the JPO spokesman, said the program has already begun implementing some of...

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