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Lockheed Martin: F-35 Logistics System Evolving by Bill Carey
AIN Defense Perspective » July 20, 2012

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Lockheed Martin executives contend that a new Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) that will provide long-term maintenance support for the F-35 Lightning II is evolving in line with the fighter. The ALIS was cited among F-35 program risks in a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

ALIS is described as the F-35’s information technology backbone for data collection, data analysis and decision support. The system receives aircraft health and maintenance information from F-35s in flight via radio-frequency downlink. The data is disseminated to appropriate users on a web-based distributed network. ALIS enables the pre-positioning of parts and maintainers on the ground, supporting F-35 maintenance and supply chain management. It automatically generates notices of needed actions to system managers....

...A Lockheed Martin F-35 program spokesman said a “verification of data” test conducted at Eglin AFB in the first quarter “identified some issues that need to be worked.” Many of those issues are classified and could not be discussed, he said.

Steve O’Bryan, F-35 business development and customer engagement, said 90 percent of the ALIS system capability at Eglin AFB will be achieved by 2013. O’Bryan said he needs to “manage expectations” for a system that moves from being a diagnostic maintenance tool to performing prognostic aircraft health management.

Joanne Puglisi, director of F-35 training at Lockheed Martin’s Global Training and Logistics center in Orlando, Florida, said the progress of the ALIS system has not affected the start of F-35 training at Eglin AFB."

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PHOTO CAPTION: "The first military pilots and maintainers are undergoing training on the F-35 ALIS at an F-35 Integrated Training Center at Eglin AFB. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)"
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spazsinbad wrote:

PHOTO CAPTION: "The first military pilots and maintainers are undergoing training on the F-35 ALIS at an F-35 Integrated Training Center at Eglin AFB. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)"
http://ainonline.com/sites/default/file ... 5-alis.jpg

There is some good comedy in this poorly thought out sales photo.

Check out the woman in the background pointing to an item on the wide-screen display. Does she imagine that the people will be able to see it better when she points it out???
Hint: No they won't see it better -- because they are on the PHONE.

What if the people on the phone are looking at the same screen on their own smaller screens? I can think of other variations and possibilities apart from it is just a 'setup' publicity photo. Posed for a lot back in the old days and they had no bearing on reality - but we knew that.