
The F-35 Joint Program Office at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., plans to award Pratt & Whitney [RTX], the builder of the aircraft's F135 engine, a contract early next year as part of the program's transition from the 20-year-old Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS) to the cloud-based Operational Data Integrated Network (ODIN). The expected ALIS to ODIN transition contract "includes ensuring integration of Pratt & Whitney-developed software and processes during planning, design, and development of ODIN," per a recent…