DOD ordered to assemble study group over F-35 software delays

It is that quiet holiday time and what do we see when everyone has gone home for awhile?

This.

More facilities, more software engineers, working into all hours of the day to keep 2A,2B,3 and 3F software blocks going. Interesting as F-35 software blocks have already been watered down from the original requirement.

Patches and all.

How much more watering down will the software blocks take? More? None?

This is not easy work when you have several more times code than an F-22 and many times more than a Super Hornet.

So, some people from outside the organisation, who allegedly are "independent" (I define that by being able to tell bad news without any bad effect to the paycheck.)

The U.S. Defense Department’s top weapons buyer is assembling a team of independent experts to study the F-35 fighter jet’s software development delays.

Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, was ordered to put together a group to study the issue and submit a report to Congress by March 3 as part of 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, which sets policy goals and spending targets for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.

O’Bryan in June said Lockheed reassigned some 200 engineers to work on the F-35’s software, many from outside the aeronautics division, with specialties in space, ship-board and sensor technology, O’Bryan said. The company also invested about $100 million to build a second laboratory where the employees work in shifts around the clock to write, test, and verify the code, he said.

As another reminder, the original F-35 plan showed hundreds of F-35s already delivered.



H/T- JSF News





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