Not progressing well with ALIS. Given the language below, you can figure that the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Joint Operational Requirement Document (JORD), composed in the 1990's and signed off on at the beginning of the last decade will never see sortie rates and mission capability rates achieved.
Without ALIS running as planned, all those assumptions, including the theory that the F-35 will be 20 percent cheaper to sustain than an F-16, are nothing more than fantasy.
Failure.
Quote “The maintenance and logistics support system for the F-35 Lightning II is about two-thirds of the way toward completion, but it will initially operate without a planned data link capability that would enable the fighter to transmit information to the ground while airborne. The so-called Prognostics and Health Management downlink has been deferred for later development to better secure the data stream, according to the Pentagon’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO).”
“…….specific timelines for all Block 4 capabilities are under program review. The downlink has no bearing on the aircraft’s diagnostics performance. The same information can be obtained once the F-35 lands……..”
H/T- JSF News
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