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Air Force

Stovepiped, Proprietary F-35 Software May Adopt Open Architecture For Future Upgrades

Tuesday, July 21st, 2015

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Stovepiped, Proprietary F-35 Software May Adopt Open Architecture For Future Upgrades

The Air Force's F-35A conventional variant. Photo: Air Force.

BALTIMORE -- The future airborne capability environment (FACE) consortium is working with the F-35 Lightning II program office in anticipation that future upgrades to the aircraft’s avionics software will be open to vendors other than Lockheed Martin [LMT].Pentagon officials, including Air Force Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, chief of Air Force F-35 integration, have called for future block upgrades to the aircraft’s software to be bid out to other companies. That would require Lockheed Martin to at least make the software…

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