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I found the above to be fascinating. .this facet of the F-35 story doesn't get the exposure it deserves. Gotta love those prognostic algorithms. . Very Happy

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Glad to see you seem to have fixed your "double posting" problem with f-16.net's message boards popcorn! Hope I didn't just jinx ya there (fingers crossed). Whistle

FlightDreamz wrote:

Glad to see you seem to have fixed your "double posting" problem with f-16.net's message boards popcorn! Hope I didn't just jinx ya there (fingers crossed). Whistle

Thanks, a big relief. The problem,went away when I switched to DSL from my mobile pocket router.. if it does recur, most likely reason I'm on the road and using the latter.

How youse beloved ALIS will be encryptically protected doods... I'll try not to double post - good news 'popcorn'. As BOGDAN mentions ALIS is a KEY. Enemy corruption/falsifying of ALIS data would be a worry also.

It's the data stupid By John Reed, September 21, 2012

http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/pos ... ata_stupid

"The Air Force has realized that simply trying to wall off its networks from cyber threats, which become more sophisticated every day, will work about as well as the Maginot Line. So it is working on a two-pronged approach to protect its most valuable information and to ensure that it can transmit that information even while under attack. This effort reflects a shift from the Air Force's focus on defending networks to protecting what really matters: the data itself....

..."All command and control runs through cyber now," said Matthews. "We can't launch [the Air Force's newest fighter] aircraft, the F-22 or the F-35, without the network being established and operating and secure. . . . Not a single [UAV] mission would be possible without a functioning and secure cyber domain."...

...Deployment readiness and logistics data may sound boring, but it is hugely important, as Maj. Gen. Christopher Bodgan, deputy program manager for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter pointed out this week when he revealed that the jet's computerized maintenance system called ALIS (Autonomic Logistics Information System) had to be tweaked to prevent spies from hacking it. Gaining access to ALIS would let hackers see how many of the jets were able to fly versus how many were down for maintenance and other details that could be extremely useful when planning to fight U.S. air forces.

"You don't mission-plan without it, you don't maintenance debrief without it, you don't pull your training records without it, you don't make sure the airplane is ready to go without it -- so it's so crucial to maintaining this airplane. It's frightening, almost," said Bodgan during the same conference. "One of the big problems was security. You can imagine that a system that has all that information about an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in it: what parts need to be fixed, what pilots are qualified, what maintainers are qualified, what mission planning is going on. You've got to protect that information.... We did some testing and found some vulnerabilities."

Best to read the entire article at the URL above.

At least for ALIS the necessary fixes will be in place in a couple of months to mitigate the risk.. http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/pos ... ationships

"You don't mission plan without it, you don't maintenance debrief without it, you don't pull your training records without it, you don't make sure the airplane is ready to go without it -- so it's so crucial to maintaining this airplane. It's frightening, almost," said Bodgan. "One of the big problems was security. You can imagine that a system that has all that information about an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in it: what parts need to be fixed, what pilots are qualified, what maintainers are qualified, what mission planning is going on. You've got to protect that information.... We did some testing and found some vulnerabilities."

But the Joint Program Office is on track to install the fixes by November, according to Bogdan.

Good addition. Thanks.

Lockheed Martin Tests Some JSF Fixes By Amy Butler 24 Sep 2012
Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.asp ... ml&p=1

"Lockheed Martin is inching closer to solving some of the technical challenges encountered with the F-35 during developmental testing....

...Meanwhile, the latest delivery of the Autonomic Logistics and Information System (ALIS), an overall F-35 management tool, is due for November, according to Bogdan. Addressing security vulnerabilities caused the milestone to slip. Bogdan says the improved version should be validated by the middle of November, just as the Marine Corps plans to stand up its first F-35B squadron at Yuma, Ariz. Without the software improvement, the Marine jets will be grounded there, which Bogdan calls a “tragedy.”

Problems with the ALIS 1.3-version software have also held up delivery of the latest aircraft from the F-35 final assembly line at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth plant...."

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