U.S. Navy seeks help redesigning F-35 mission planning
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Washington seeks to renew the system that prepares hunting missions before they take off. The goal is to update the complex software architecture that turns intelligence data into instructions for the aircraft.
US Navy’s F-35s aren’t even a decade old, already need pricey ‘mission planning’ upgrade
The Navy plans to spend $50-$100M to upgrade the software used for planning F-35 attack sorties and loading data into jets before takeoff.The upgrade means the existing software is either defective or inefficient/insufficient to support operations...
U.S. Navy seeks help redesigning F-35 mission planning
The U.S. Navy is lining up a five-year engineering support contract for the redesign of the F-35’s mission planning software, the ground-based system pilots use to plan sorties and load data into the stealth fighter before takeoff. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California, said in a sources sought notice published […]
Key takeaways The U.S. Navy is preparing a five-year engineering agreement to thoroughly overhaul the F-35's mission planning software. ARCHER This ground-based system is essential for pilots to organize flight paths, identify targets, and configure weapon and communication settings before the data is transferred to the aircraft. The project, known as Advanced Requirements Characterization, […]
The U.S. Navy announced that it is planning a five-year program to redesign the mission planning software of the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. The mission planning system is the ground-based system that pilots use to plan sorties and upload data to the aircraft before takeoff. The NAWCWD (Naval Air Warfare Center […] The article U.S. Navy Plans Upgrade of F-35 Lightning II Mission Planning System was first published in Defense Review.
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