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Air Force

F-35 Program To Speed Up Fielding Of New Anti-Collision System

By Marc Selinger

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018

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F-35 Program To Speed Up Fielding Of New Anti-Collision System

Hill Air Force Base F-35As fly in formation over the Utah Test and Training Range, March 30, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/R. Nial Bradshaw)

The U.S. Defense Department’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has announced that it plans to accelerate the integration of the new Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS) into the fighter jet, citing the software’s ability to save the lives of pilots.The JPO said late Jan. 30 that it intends to add Auto-GCAS to the F-35 Lightning II fleet by 2019, five years earlier than previously planned. The software, which the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), NASA and Lockheed Martin [LMT]…

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