
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the program office for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 are investing in digital engineering to speed development, as AFRL hosts a ribbon cutting for the Micro-Electronics Digital Engineering Infrastructure on Thursday at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. AFRL's DoD Supercomputing Resource Center is to house the new, advanced micro-electronics hardware. The latter is part of a $70-million investment by the F-35 Joint Program Office and others in advanced, digital engineering, AFRL said. "These upgrades…